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Born in Hudson, N. Y., June 13, 1812, he went to Columbus, 

 Ohio, in the fall of 1843. Remaining there until the following 

 spring, he moved to Albany, N. Y. Here he remained until Sep- 

 tember, 1845, when he married and returned to Columbus, residing 

 there continuously until his death, with the exception of a trip to 

 California and a year's residence in Dayton, Ohio. 



He was an earnest and enthusiastic naturalist, being interested in 

 both the recent and fossil forms. Mr. Moores discovered and 

 named the following new species o( Union idee : Anodonta hoekin- 

 ijfiixix; A. sommersi ; A. hydei; A. freidi. Dr. Lea named, in his 

 honor, Succinea, mooresi. A fossil crinoid, Zeocrintis mooresi Whit- 

 field, and a fossil bivalve from Carbon Hill, Scktzodiis mooresi Mil- 

 ler were respectively dedicated to him. 



There was also one snail discovered by him in Texas, and 

 named, by Mr. Binney, Helix mooreana. Some of the shells in his 

 collection were collected over a hundred years ago by early scien- 

 tists; one bears the date 1778, and many are wrapped in pieces of 

 newspapers dating as far back as 1850 and earlier. Like many 

 others, Mr. Moores caught the gold fever in 1849, and some of the 

 specimens in the Ohio State University Museum were collected by 

 him then. 



His own private catalogue of species is a work of scientific 

 value for its accurate arrangement and modern classification. 



As a reward of his industry his cabinet contained over thirty-three 

 hundred species of land, fresh water and marine shells, about one 

 thousand species of fossils and about two hundred and fifty varieties 

 of minerals. 



But the industry of one man may be better understood when it is 

 said that it took three days' solid work for a drayman with horse 

 and wagon to move the collection from Mr. Moores' former home 

 on W. Rich street to the University, after he had spent nearly five 

 weeks in packing them in boxes and preparing them for the trans- 

 fer. The real scientific ability of the collector is shown in the fact 

 that, every specimen that could be labelled bore its card, giving all 

 data necessary for any person to take it up and study it understaud- 

 ingly. This one feature adds more to the value of the collection 

 than anything else possibly can, except first-class specimens, and 

 those of this collection are of the best. If it were necessary to 

 choose between poor specimens with full and accurate data and good 

 ones with no labels, it is often that the scientific student would choose 



