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Dr. H. Woodward wrote : 



DEAR MR. MORE, I willingly offer my testimony in your favour as 

 to your thorough fitness for the post of Curator of the Natural History 

 Department of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 



Having 1 last year made a most careful inspection of your Museum, 

 I am able to speak from actual knowledge of the excellent way in which 

 the work of exhibiting, arranging, and labelling the objects under your 

 care has been carried out. 



From long acquaintance with my old and esteemed friend Dr. Carte, 

 deceased, the late director of your Museum, I am fully aware of the 

 large share of work which for many years has devolved upon you, and 

 how well the task has been fulfilled. Dr. Carte frequently spoke of you 

 to me, and always in the highest terms. 



I shall learn with the very highest satisfaction of your appointment, 

 and I am sure the feeling will be general that you have by your past 

 services earned honestly the post for which you are now a candidate. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe wrote : 



MY DEAR MORE, I am very glad to hear that you are a candidate 

 for the post of Curator of the Natural History Museum in Dublin, and I 

 have much pleasure in sending you these few lines to testify to my high 

 appreciation of your writings as an ornithologist. It is only to be re- 

 gretted that your other duties have prevented you from writing more 

 papers on ornithology, as those which you have published have been of 

 a high order. I have also been much struck with the progress which 

 your collection of birds has made at Dublin during the last few years, 

 and I know that this has been greatly due to the interest you have taken 

 in the Museum. 



Mr. J. E. Harting wrote : 



I have known Mr. A. G. More, of Dublin, for nearly twenty years, 

 during which time I have had frequent opportunities, through corre- 

 spondence and personal interviews, of noting his abilities as a zoologist. 

 With regard to his publications, and more especially to his papers on 

 ornithology, I cannot speak too highly. No one can peruse them 

 without feeling that Mr. More has made himself thoroughly conversant 

 with the subjects on which he has written, while his papers are always 

 characterized by their accuracy of details, showing the conscientious 

 way in which his researches are carried out. From what I know of his 

 qualifications as a practical and practised naturalist, I am sure that if 

 elected to the post of Curator to the Natural History Museum in Dublin 

 Mr. A. G. More would be the right man in the right place. 



