3i2 Alexander Goodman More. [188* 



CHAPTER XLIII. 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR. STEWART. 



[1884.] 



THE first week of the New Year he spent in London in a 

 whirl of visits to museums and naturalists, some for the 

 Dublin Museum, some for the Cybele, and some in the 

 cause of the Irish Lighthouse observations, he and Mr. 

 Barrington having been charged with that branch of the 

 work of the British Association's Migration Committee. 

 He was very anxious to secure plates of coloured illustra- 

 tions, after Morris's British Birds, for issue to Lighthouse 

 keepers, but this was found impossible. He saw Mr. 

 Bennett, Mr. H. Groves, Mr. Newbould, Sir Joseph Hooker, 

 Mr. Baker, Professor Newton, Mr. Dresser, Prof. Huxley, 

 Mr. Seebohm, Mr. Harting, Dr. Sclater, Mr. Salvin, Mr. 

 F. D. Godman, Mr. Howard Saunders, and Mr. J. T. 

 Carrington. Hurried memoranda of books to be purchased,, 

 whereabouts of specimens and manuscripts, references, 

 addresses, scraps of bibliography and antiquarian matter, 

 naturalists' desiderata " A Catalogue of Irish Plants," 

 "A list of the Plants of Wales," " A Lighthouse Guide," 

 " Catalogue of Irish Vertebrates," " ditto Fishes," and 

 such miscellaneous reminders as "Leek at St. Davids 

 (A Ilium siMricum} to send to Prof. Westwood," "H. E. 

 Dresser wants ' My Father's Sword ' *, " " To write to Sir 

 J. Hooker about Irish distribution of Hieracium gibsoni, 

 extended range of H. tridentatum, Ophioglossum var. 

 nanum, Campanula rotundifolia, var. speciosa, from Boffin 

 Island (near arctica; and cf. with Scheuchzeria)," &c. 

 &c., crowd about 40 pages of his pocket note-book ; and he 

 probably overdid himself, for " Sick Certificate " is nearly 

 the first memorandum entered after his return to Dublin. 



* Some verses by Mr. More, of which a few copies had been printed. 



