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Biographical entry Moore, Thomas Bather (1850 - 1919)

F.R.G.S.

Born
26 November 1850
New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia
Died
14 August 1919
Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Explorer and Botanical collector

Summary

Thomas Bather Moore, a prospector, amateur botanist and geologist, explored many areas of Tasmania, particularly the west. He also collected plant specimens for F. Mueller.

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Events

1886
Career event - Presented Report on the West Coast to the Geographical Society of Australasia
1886
Taxonomy event - Described the eucalyptus muelleri T.B. Moore. (1886) F. muelleri T. B. Moore (1886) (=Eucalyptus johnstonii Maiden (1922))

Archival resources

National Herbarium, Melbourne

  • Thomas Bather Moore - Records, 1889 - 1891, MSS M30; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

Private hands (Elliston, M.G.)

  • Thomas Bather Moore - Records, 1850 - 1919; Private hands (Elliston, M.G.). Details

Published resources

Books

  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts : short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne, 1978, 101 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • McShane, Ian, 'Moore, Thomas Bather (1850-1919), Prospector and Explorer', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, p. 571. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100557b.htm. Details

Online Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 July 2012