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lists. These chapters (extending to more than a hundred small 

 octavo pages) were issued separately, with a fresh pagination and 

 a new title, as * Outlines of the Natural History of the Isle of 

 Wight.' Edited by A. G. More, F.L.S. London: Spottiswoode 

 & Co., 1860. 



In this publication there were not unnaturally errors, which 

 subsequently-gained experience caused him to modify or correct, 

 and this he did some years later in Jenkinson's ' Practical Guide 

 to the Isle of Wight,' first printed in 1876. The lists of plants 

 and animals given by him in this later work are different from 

 those in Venables' * Guide,' though founded apparently upon the 

 same information. An important correction was that which had 

 reference to the previously alleged occurrence of Vespertilio 

 murinus in the island, the species in question having proved to 

 be V. noctula. Another Bat, catalogued as Daubenton's Bat 

 in Venables' * Guide,' proved to be F. mystacinus. Both these 

 errors were explained and corrected by himself in Jenkinson's 

 ' Guide,' as well as in ' The Zoologist' (1894, p. 148). 



Before either of these ' Guides ' was published he had com- 

 menced to write in ' The Zoologist,' and in the volume for 1858 

 (pp. 6018 — 6027) we find an original communication (which must 

 have given considerable trouble to prepare), " On the Distribu- 

 tion of Butterflies in Great Britain." This paper has probably 

 been forgotten, and is even perhaps unknown to the younger 

 generation of entomologists. It would be interesting to review 

 it now by the light of present knowledge. 



From the year 1860, when his observations on the fauna and 

 flora of the Isle of Wight were published, we find him con- 

 tributing at intervals not only to ' The Zoologist,' but also to 

 the ' Phytologist,' and the ' Proceedings ' of the Botanical Society 

 of Edinburgh ; and a little later we find papers, chiefly botanical, 

 in the 'Journal' and 'Transactions' of the Linnean Society 

 (of which he was elected a Fellow in 1856), the 'Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History,' the ' Journal of Botany,' the 

 Dublin Society's 'Journal,' and the British Association 'Re* 

 ports.' To ' The Ibis ' for 1865 he contributed an important 

 paper " On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during 

 the Nesting Season," which proved extremely useful in paving 

 the way for extended observations on this subject by other 

 naturalists. Although a good zoologist, Mr. More appears to 



