144 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



MEMOIR OF THE LATE A. G. MORE, F.L.S. M.R.I.A. 



With very great regret we have to announce the death of 

 Mr. Alexander Goodman More, which took place in Dublin on 

 March 22nd, at the age of sixty -four. It could hardly be said 

 to be unexpected, for so long ago as 1887 he was compelled from 

 ill-health to resign his appointment as Curator of the Natural 

 History Department of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin 

 (Zool. 1887, p. 355), and since that time his strength had been 

 gradually failing. Although not an Irishman, Mr. More had 

 resided so long in Ireland that he had well-nigh come to be 

 regarded as one, and for nearly thirty years he exercised an 

 influence of a special kind amongst naturalists as an authority on 

 Irish birds and plants. As a matter of fact he was of Scottish 

 extraction, being the son of Alexander More, of Malvern, grand- 

 son of Alexander More, Collector of Customs, Aberdeen, and 

 great-grandson of Gilbert More, of Rezaden, Aberdeen ; while 

 on his mother's side he was descended from Alexander Innes, of 

 Breda and Cowie. 



Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, where he was elected an 

 Associate of the Ray Club in 1851, he went, on leaving the Uni- 

 versity, to reside for a time at Bembridge, in the Isle of Wight. At 

 first birds, insects, and flowering plants especially attracted him, 

 but by degrees he came to extend his observations to the small 

 Mammalia, especially the Chiroptera, and subsequently to the 

 Fishes. In his outdoor observations and collections he was much 

 encouraged by the Rev. C. A. Bury, of Bonchurch, who had himself 

 published some years previously an account of the mammals and 

 birds of the Isle of Wight;* by the late Frederick Bond, who 

 spent a good deal of time in the island while More was there 

 (cf. Zool. 1889, p. 412) ; and by H. Rogers, the observant taxi- 

 dermist at Freshwater, through whose instrumentality many an 

 interesting fact in connection with the ornithology of the island 

 was brought to the notice of naturalists. The outcome of this 

 sojourn in the South of England was an important addition to 

 Venables' ' Guide to the Isle of Wight,' in the shape of chapters 

 upon the Zoology and Botany of the island, with systematic 



* Mammals, Zool. 1844, pp. 77G— 790 ; Birds, Zool. 1844, pp. 51G— 524, 

 634— G44 ; 1845, pp. 915—933, 970—978. 



