Person

Moore, Thomas Bather (1850 - 1919)

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

Summary

Thomas 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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Chronology

1886
Career event - Presented Report on the West Coast to the Geographical Society of Australasia
1886
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus muelleri T.B.Moore (= Eucalyptus johnstonii Maiden (1922))
1888 -
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

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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

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Book Sections

  • McShane, Ian, 'Moore, Thomas Bather (1850-1919), prospector and explorer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), p. 571. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100557b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Baillie, Peter, 'The West Coast Range, Tasmania: Mountains and Geological Giants', Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 144 (2010), 1-13. Details

Resources

See also

  • 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 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details

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