382 Alexander Goodman More. [i89& 



CHAPTER LII. 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 



REGULARLY as the year came round he applied himself 

 to the mapping out of fresh areas for exploration. " Have 

 you made any plans yet as to where you should go ex- 

 ploring this year ? I think the north coast of Mayo, for 

 sea eagle and other birds, and the lakes, Mask, Carra, and 

 Corrib, will be best worth your attention." So begins a 

 letter to Mr. Warren, dated April i5th, 1892 ; and the 

 suggested expedition was carried out during the summer 

 of that year with a large measure of success. The Sea 

 Eagle was seen, and evidence gathered as to its still 

 breeding on some of the coast-precipices of Mayo, more 

 satisfactory than any obtained for several years. Mr. 

 Ussher was simultaneously exploring among the midland 

 lakes, and Irish ornithology was thus making progress in 

 many directions. Mr. More felt his inability to share in 

 the active work. But he was as far from a " sleeping 

 partner" in the later stages as in the inception, nothing 

 being done without frequent reference to him ; and the 

 Reports drawn up from time to time for the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy were generally framed in the form which he 

 prescribed. 



Feb. i sth, 1893. 



DEAR WARREN, I was very glad to receive your letter. The best 

 way about the Report will be, I think, for you and Ussher to draw up 

 your own Reports separately, and then they can be introduced under 

 " Mr. Warren reports," " Mr. Ussher reports," and if my name is to go 

 in at all, it will only be in the title of the Paper. Are you for sending in 

 a Report this year ? or for waiting another breeding season ? Mean- 

 time I now return your very interesting letter, as with a few changes it 

 might easily be turned into a report. . . . And I believe that any 

 notes freshly written down, immediately after the excursion, are always 

 better. 



