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me on your journey, and are going to send me, Salmo gallivensis, 

 &c., &c. I have been collecting Salmonidae the whole year, especially 

 lake-trout, from the Austrian lakes. Unfortunately I shall not be 

 able to complete my work at the Salmonidse before 1879. Do come 

 next year ; I am looking forward so much to seeing you again. I 

 shall be in Vienna the whole of 1879, except May and June. With a 

 thousand kind remembrances, your sincere friend, 



STEINDACHNER. 



Dr. Steindachner had already used his influence to 

 secure the election of his friend as honorary member of the 

 Imperial Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna. Mr. 

 More was never able to visit the Austrian capital ; but he 

 had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Steindachner again in 

 1883, at the "Fisheries" Exhibition in London. 



At the close of the year 1877 he paid what proved his 

 last visit to the Isle of Wight. He had never allowed his 

 interest in the old home to drop, and the Natural History 

 part of Jenkinson's " Guide to the Isle of Wight/' published 

 in 1876, was from his pen. A few days were now spent at 

 Ryde, and excursions (Dec. 26th-28th) to Bembridge Down, 

 Sandown Bay, and St. Boniface's Down, recalled many an 

 arduous botanical search, or exciting chase with the butter- 

 fly-net. He went next (Jan. 2nd, 1878) to London, and 

 three days were given up respectively to South Kensington, 

 the British Museum, and (not least) the dealers. 



There was, in 1878, an additional incentive to leave 

 nothing undone towards setting the Irish collections in 

 the best possible order ; for the meeting of the British 

 Association was to be held in Dublin, and a natural 

 ambition prevailed that the Museum should be in every 

 way worthy of the notice of the assembled u scientific 

 world." The early months were therefore marked by 

 much activity in every department ; and, not inappro- 

 priately, the one addition which Mr. More this year made 

 to the Irish Fauna was " discovered " in the Museum itself. 

 This was the white-beaked dolphin (Delphinus albirostris), 

 identified from a cast and coloured sketch (preserved in 

 the Museum) of a specimen once captured on the Dublin 

 coast, but which itself seems to have been lost. 



The meeting of the British Association began on the 



