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Justin P. Moore

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Justin Payson Moore
Born(1841-05-08)May 8, 1841
Died1923
Known forcatalogue of USA Pacific Coast fungi; vice-president California Academy of Sciences
SpouseCharlotte D. Moore
Scientific career
Fieldsmycology; librarianship

Justin Payson Moore (1841–1923) was a natural historian, particularly interested in mycology. He became vice-president of the California Academy of Sciences from 1880 - 1883.

Career

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Moore was elected a member of the California Academy of Sciences in 1875 and was the vice-president in 1880–1883 and again in 1886, although he resigned in October 1886.[1]

Moore had broad interests in natural history but his major focus was fungi. He became the academy's curator of botany in 1882 and 1883. He co-authored the important early work Catalogue of the Pacific Coast Fungi with H. W. Harkness in 1880 (published by the California Academy of Sciences).[2]

After 1886 he was not active in the academy but he donated books and money for rebuilding the academy after the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco.[4]

Moore resigned from the academy in 1889 and for 20 years from the late 1890s was librarian and assistant secretary of the Fire Underwriters Association of the Pacific.

Personal life

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Justin Payson Moore was born in Augusta, Maine on 8 May, probably in 1841. He was probably trained as a minister and sent to Benicia in California in October 1865 by the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Moore was married and his wife, Charlotte D. Moore, outlived him.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Daniel, Thomas F. (2008). "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences (1853–2003)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Series 4. 59 (7): 215–305.
  2. ^ Hittell, T H (1997). A narrative history of the California Academy of Sciences, 1853–1906. California Academy of Sciences. pp. 11–484.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  J.P.Moore.
  4. ^ Leviton, A E; Aldrich, ML (1997). Theodore Henry Hittell's the California Academy of Sciences: a Narrative History, 1853–1906. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences.