272 Alexander Goodman More. [1379 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



INTEREST IN WELSH BOTANY. 

 [1879-1880.] 



AFTER a fortnight's illness he was able to return to work ; 

 but he found the winter and spring which followed unusu- 

 ally trying, and his health had become a cause of great 

 anxiety. A visit to Vienna in 1879 was quite out of the 

 question. He jwent to Killarney in May, and found it 

 very cold. In June, a sad blank was created in his circle 

 of friends by the death of Dr. Moore. For fifteen years 

 the association between them had been close, and as 

 mentioned in the " Dictionary of National Biography," 

 Dr. Moore's last contribution to botany was " a description 

 of a new species of Isoetes* which he called after his friend 

 More." Dr. Carte was also at this time in rapidly failing 

 health, and the responsibilities of Mr. More's position were 

 thus considerably increased. He spent a part of his sum- 

 mer holiday (July 14 August 2) at Malvern, and later in 

 August went for a few days to Bala. Better for him, no 

 doubt, than the fatiguing recreations of Roundstone was 

 such quiet dredging for aquatic plants as he now enjoyed. 

 But it was becoming daily more obvious that rest was not 

 all he needed. The injuries received six years ago at 

 Inishkea were telling upon him, and constant pain in the 

 hip-joint, sometimes amounting to acute agony, threatened 

 to render him permanently helpless. On the i;th Sep- 

 tember he underwent an operation. Seventeen days after 

 it (Oct. 4th) he was carried from his bed to a sofa, and 

 on October 6th " walked for first time." Not till the loth of 

 November was he equal to resuming duty, and even then 

 was far from fully recovered. On Christmas Day he was 

 again unable to leave his bed, and continued so for nearly 

 five weeks. On the 27th of January, 1880, he was " up 



* Isoetes morei. See "Journal of Botany " for December, 1878. 



