3io Alexander Goodman More. [isss 



use should be made of the materials which he had collected for a Flora 

 of North- Eastern Ireland, which he told me it was his intention to pub- 

 lish ; and I trust that means may yet be found to carry out this very 

 proper design of his. And knowing that Mr. Corry had already pre- 

 pared some portion of the manuscript, and that he proposed to join 

 with you as partner in the undertaking, I cannot think of anything more 

 appropriate as a memorial to the botanical talents of our late friend 

 than that his wishes in this respect should be carried out. You are 

 quite at liberty to show this letter, either to Mr. Corry or to anyone in 

 Belfast who may wish to see the undertaking carried out ; and I sin- 

 cerely trust that you may soon be in a position to commence the neces- 

 sary work for the purpose. I remain, dear sir, yours very truly, 



A. G. MORE, 



(Curator of the Natural History Museum, and, -with the late 

 Dr. Moore, Author of the " Cybele Hibernica"} 



He had soon the satisfaction of learning that the publi 

 cation of the Flora was assured. At the same time he was 

 bestirring himself about the Cybele, and when Museum 

 business took him in December to London, gladly availed 

 himself of Mr. Bennett's friendliness in agreeing to go 

 through the critical Irish Potamogetons with him. His 

 letter of Christmas greeting to Mr. Barrington says some- 

 thing of his hopes and plans for the book, and for the 

 coming year : 



ELLESMERE LODGE, MALVERN, 



December 2$rd, 1883. 



DEAR BARRINGTON, I have got so far on my way to London. 

 Had a very friendly letter from A. Bennett. I think I shall stay here 

 and take a week's holiday before going to London. So please write to 

 me here. I am rather glad that you did not bring - 's and your 

 own Potamogetons, as I think the two Herbaria of College and Glas- 

 nevin will be sufficient for one "meal." And I have left my own set 

 behind. So that, if you like, we can wait until after I have seen Bennett, 

 and then send our two lots together to him by parcel post. 



What a dear, kind fellow you are to take all this trouble of going 

 through the College Herb, for the "new Cybele," not "fresh from 

 ocean," as Byron's was. But I hope, yet to come out before fifteen 

 months are past. 



Without your help I could not face the task, and I think your name 

 should go on the title-page, as, assisted by R. M. B. ; and then too you 



