| AdminHistory | Alexander Goodman More (1830-1895) was born in London on 5 September 1830. He was educated at Rugby School and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He worked as an Assistant at the Natural History Museum, Dublin from 1867, and a Curator between 1881-1887. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1856, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
He was interested in birds and insects, completing important papers such as 'On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during the Nesting-season'. Ultimately he became an authority on the flowering plants of Ireland, notably publishing with Dr. David Moore, 'Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica'. He contributed in 1860 a section entitled, "Outlines of Natural History of the Isle of Wight", to Rev. Edmund Venables' 'Guide to the Isle of Wight'. Working on W.A. Bromfield's Flora Vectensis' he wrote a 'Supplement to the Flora Vectensis', London 1871. More's herbarium and portrait are at the National Museum, Dublin, and some of his letters are at Kew. There is also a portrait at the Hunt Library.
More died on 22 March 1895 in Dublin. |
| Description | Author's interleaved and annotated copy of Supplement to the Flora Vectensis, London 1871. Title page signed "A.G.More, Glasnevin, 1871"
Bound with 'A catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns growing wild in the Isle of Wight, to serve as an index to the herbarium of Dr Bromfield', Isle of Wight Philosophical and Scientific Society [Ryde, 1868]. |