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acquaintance with the kind of detail required for such a Museum, while 

 in general zoology you have proved your knowledge by the correctness 

 with which you have made identifications of the many species submitted 

 to you. I cannot pass over the mention of another point, viz., the great 

 encouragement which you have always given to our younger naturalists 

 in their studies. I believe it is not too much to say, that of all the 

 practical work which has been done within the last few years in con- 

 nexion with our Irish Fauna you have been the counsellor and guide to the 

 workers. I therefore on these grounds consider that your appointment 

 would be the most conducive to the best interests of the Museum, and 

 would be hailed with great pleasure by all Irish naturalists. 



Professor J. Emerson Reynolds, of Dublin University, 

 wrote : 



I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. A. G. More for some 

 fifteen years. During part of that time I was officially connected with 

 the Natural History Museum in Kildare-street, Dublin, and therefore 

 had ample opportunities of observing his work as the late Dr. Carte's 

 principal assistant. Mr. More is an excellent officer, thoroughly 

 conversant with all the details of the Museum work, which latterly 

 devolved almost entirely upon him owing to Dr. Carte's failing health. 

 I have no doubt that Mr. More's appointment to the Curatorship of 

 the Museum would not only be generally approved and regarded as fair 

 promotion to an able officer, but would also greatly conduce to the 

 steady development of the Natural History Museum in public utility. 



Dr. R. H. Traquair, Keeper of the Natural History 

 Collection in Edinburgh Museum, wrote : 



Mr. A. G. More, first known to science as an accomplished botanist, 

 and, along with the late Dr. Moore, joint author of the well-known 

 " Cybele Hibernica," has been for fifteen years senior assistant in 

 the Natural History Department of the Dublin Museum. His long 

 experience of Museum work, and his intimate knowledge of various 

 branches of Zoology, especially Ornithology, and the Marine Fauna of 

 the British and Irish coasts, give him strong claims to the Curatorship 

 of the Natural History collection in that Museum, vacant by the death 

 of Dr. Carte. 



The Rev. H. Maxwell Close, Treasurer of the Royal 

 Irish Academy, wrote : 



MY DEAR SIR, Understanding that you are a candidate for the 

 Curatorship of the Museum of Natural History in Dublin, in the 

 room of our late lamented friend, Dr. Carte, I have much pleasure in 

 declaring my belief, after being acquainted with you ever since you 



