1887] Resignation. 335 



if you wish to study the subject thoroughly. I began myself when I was 

 at Rugby, and have found the greatest pleasure and interest in birds 

 ever since. ..... Kindly excuse this ill-written letter, which I am 



writing on my back in bed, and allow me to say that I shall be most 

 happy if I can be of any service to you in the matter of birds, and I hope 

 we may meet some day. Yours very sincerely, 



A. G. MORE. 



His long sick-leave, which was to expire on May nth, 

 was now extended over another 3 months, on the chance 

 of his yet making a good enough recovery to resume 

 the duties of Curator. But such hope (a feeble one from 

 the first) proved vain. Though from the middle of June 

 he was able to go out daily in a Bath chair where " Flies 

 become troublesome " (July igth), is his first natural history 

 note he showed no signs of regaining strength; and on 

 the loth of August he sent in his letter of resignation. 



Apart from the fact that his illness and disablement 

 were the ultimate, though long delayed, result of violence 

 dealt him while on duty for the Museum, it was felt that 

 his services alone gave him a strong claim to favourable 

 and generous treatment ; and among the documents for- 

 warded to the Lords of the Treasury with his application 

 for superannuation was the following, entitled : 



MEMORANDA OF THE SERVICES OF MR. A. G. MORE, F.L.S., M.R.I.A., 

 F.R.S.E., AND MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' 

 UNION. 



Mr. More was educated at Rugby and Cambridge. After leaving 

 Cambridge he became much attached to the study of natural history. 

 In 1860 he published a Fauna and Flora of the Isle of Wight, as part of 

 a Guide-book to the Isle of Wight written by the Rev. Canon Venables. 

 He wrote many notices relating to the birds and plants of the island, 

 and assisted Dr. Boswell in his edition of " English Botany." 



In 1864 he came to Ireland, where he planned and carried out, with 

 the assistance of Dr. Moore, the " Cybele Hibernica," a chief authority 

 on the botany of Ireland. At the same time he wrote in the " Ibis " an 

 elaborate account of the Distribution of British Birds, and this paper is 

 quoted by all the principal writers on the subject. 



In 1867 he was appointed Assistant in the Natural History Museum 

 under the late Dr. Carte, and was in great measure entrusted with the 

 selection, purchase, identification, and arrangement of the specimens, 

 a task which entailed much labour, as the Museum was then being 

 re-organized. 



