Alexander Goodman More Explained

Alexander Goodman More (5 September 1830 – 22 March 1895) was a British naturalist.^{[1] [2]}

Life

Born in London, More was educated at Rugby School, and matriculated at Trinity College, 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. He occupied himself with natural history.

In 1866, in conjunction with David Moore, he published "an excellent account on the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland,"^[3] titled Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica.

From 1867 to 1887 he was Curator of the Natural History Museum of the Royal Dublin Society.^{[4] [5]}

In 1887 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Dickson, Ramsay Heatley Traquair, Robert Gray and Alexander Buchan.^[6]

Publications

• Cybele Hibernica (1866), with David Moore.^[7]
• On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain (1865)

Notes and References

1. Book: Life and letters of Alexander Goodman More, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., M.R.I.A., with selections from his zoological and botanical writings; (1898) . . 1898 .
2. Book: Frederic Boase

   . Boase, Frederic. Frederic Boase. Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died during the years 1850–1900. 1921. 6, L-Z. More, Alexander Goodman. 243. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066335905;view=1up;seq=134.

3. James Geikie . 1895 . Chairman's Opening Address . Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . 21 . 13–14 .
4. 54094. More, Alexander Goodman. E. Charles. Nelson.
5. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 9 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. 4 March 2016. dead.
6. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 9 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. 4 March 2016. dead.
7. • 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