Alexander goodman more irish naturalist 1895

Alexander Goodman More (5 September 1830 – 22 March 1895) was a British naturalist.

Life

Born in

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, More was educated at

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, and matriculated at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

in 1850. He did not graduate, however, though he remained at Trinity until 1855: periods of illness interrupted his studies. He did make contact with a number of botanists and ornithologists there. Then until 1867 he occupied himself with natural history. From 1867 to 1887 In that year he was Curator of the Natural History Museum of the Royal Dublin Society. In 1887 he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

. His proposers were Alexander Dickson,

Ramsay Heatley Traquair Ramsay Heatley Traquair FRSE FRS (30 July 1840 – 22 November 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish. Traquair trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatomy ...

, Robert Gray and Alexander Buchan.

Publications

* ''Cybele Hibernica'' (1866), with

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.*Timothy Collins, ''Dodos and Discord: A Biographical Note on A.G. Melville of Queen's College Galway'', Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 50, (1998), pp. 90-111, at p. 104 note 4. Published by: Galway Archaeological & Historical Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25550197 * ''On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain'' (1865)

References

1830 births 1895 deaths British naturalists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Members of the Royal Irish Academy {{UK-scientist-stub