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Lejeunea Moorei was named in his honour by Dr. Lindberg, and, amongst 

 Fhanerogams, Helosciadum Moorei by Syme. In 1839 Moore was 

 appointed by the Royal Dublin Society as Director of their Botanic 

 Gardens at Glasnevin. Here again he was in his element, his success as a 

 horticulturist being equal to his fortune as a scientific botanist. Glasnevin 

 is not crippled, as so many provincial so-called Botanic Gardens are, by 

 dependence on voluntary support, but has an asstu'ed income derived from 

 Parliamentary grant. It is not necessary, as in Belfast, to compete with 

 the Circus in tight-rope performances, or to have the grounds injiu^ed by 

 the crowds brought together to witness balloon ascents, or displays of 

 fireworks. It was thus in the power of an able and energetic Director to 

 make the place an honour to the Irish Metropolis, and no one will deny 

 to Moore the credit of having done this. His journeys to various parts 

 of Europe were the means of introducing many new plants to British 

 gardens, and in this and other ways the aid of the State was repaid by 

 material and aesthetic emichments. 



In recognition of his talent and his zeal he was elected a member of the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy, and was on the Council of that Society, while in 

 England he was received as a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 

 Scotland as FeUow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. In addition 

 he was a Botanical Commissioner at the Moscow Exhibition in 1865, and 

 at Paris in 1867. Distinctions were not limited to this coimtry, the 

 degree of Ph.D. being conferred on him by the University of Leipzig, 

 and he was admitted to the membership of the Imperial Zoological and 

 Botanical Society of Vienna, and appointed corresponding member of the 

 Natviral History Society of Strasbourg. 



Though so much engrossed in horticultural work, and with the 

 improvement of the Gardens, Dr. Moore did not lose his interest in 

 scientific botany. Numerous short communications came from his pen, 

 and in 1866 there appeared the Cybele Hibei-nica, which was the first 

 Flora issued in Ireland that can be said to be at all full and satisfactory. 

 The British Association gave a grant of £25 towards the expenses of tlus 

 book, and it was prepared by Moore, in conjunction with Mr. A. G. More, 

 F.L.S., the latter, indeed, having taken the larger part of the editorial work. 

 It is no disparagement of Mackay to say that the Cybele was a great advance 

 on the Flora Hibemica, for that could be accomplished in 1866 which was 

 not possible in 1836. In 1872 there appeared in the Proceedings of the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy Moore's Synopsis of the Mosses of Ireland, which 

 not only states localities, but gives brief generic and specific characters for 

 the plants. This was a carefully prepared list, and enumerates about 140 

 species beyond those known to Dr. Taylor as Irish thirty- six years 

 previously. In 1873 Professor Lindberg, of Helsingfors, a well known 

 authority on mosses and hepatics, visited Ireland, and was the guest of 

 Dr. Moore during his stay. In June and July of that year they visited 

 some of the best districts in Ireland for cryptogamic plants, and were 

 highly successful in their work. As results of these explorations, Dr. 

 Lmdberg described three new species of Hepaticae, besides adding to the 



