224 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
service to Irish Zoology and Botany. Apart from his long 
service in the Royal Dublin Society’s Museum, in which he 
eventually for a short period—until complete physical collapse 
ensued—succeeded Dr. Carte as Curator, his life-work must be 
sought in quiet and unobtrusive contributions to biological know- 
ledge, to the assistance always rendered to other workers, and to 
the directing power given and enthusiasm afforded to the studies of 
young naturalists. Under these conditions it is difficult to analyze 
the career so well told in this volume, written by a sister who with 
unusual modesty describes on the title-page her memoir asa preface. 
More’s official connection with the Royal Dublin Museum 
commenced with his appointment as ‘‘first assistant naturalist” 
at the commencement of 1867. . He succeeded the late Dr. Carte 
in the curatorship near the end of 1881, and after long physical 
suffering and hoping against hope for the renewed strength that 
never came, he-resigned his position in 1887. During these 
twenty years, we read, “his room (in the museum) was the 
rendezvous of all naturalists who came to Dublin”’; and after the 
assumption of his curatorship we find him writing to Prof. 
Newton: ‘I don’t at all intend to die, or retire, for a long 
time yet. Not until you shall see what a Museum I will make 
it.” He made many local natural history expeditions on behalf — 
of his museum, and on one of these, in 1873, ‘‘a dredging and 
collecting expedition to Achill and the adjacent coasts,” he met 
with an untimely adventure, from the effects of which he pro- — 
bably never recovered. On the lonely island of Inishkea, about 
eight miles north of Achill, is, or was, among its solitary in- 
habitants, a fetish named “ Neve-ogue,” about which the visitor 
was wise neither to enquire nor speak about. But stories had got 
abroad about the benighted condition of these western Irish, and a 
letter had appeared in print headed “Idolatry in the 19th Century.” 
This had aroused the fierce indignation of the islanders, and, as 
not unusual, the wrong man paid the penalty. The unoffending 
More was surrounded by a group of angry islanders, “ and before 
he could gather the meaning of the situation, a blow from a heavy 
piece of timber had stretched him on the ground” in an un- 
conscious condition. | . 
After his resignation, and while a hopeless invalid, he was 
still able to help the cause he had at heart, and from time to time 
