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THE death of the Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Glasnevin, near Dublin, on June 9 last, has caused a very wide-spread sorrow among the botanists and horticulturists of Europe. Although Dr. Moore had attained the age of seventy-two, yet his physical strength was but little abated, and his mental powers were as strong as they were mature. A peculiarly severe attack of acute cystitis of scarcely four days' duration deprived us of a truly excellent and amiable man.
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David Moore, Ph.D. . Nature 20, 198 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020198a0
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