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a medal, to be offered in competition annually, as a prize for an appropriate 

 essay. This medal was to be known as the Templetonian Medal, and to 

 Mr. Robert Patterson, then quite a young man but subsequently well 

 known as a naturalist, an author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, the 

 first award was made. As we can trace this medal no further, it is 

 assumed that the project was shortly abandoned. Mr. Templeton had the 

 honour of being elected an Associate of the Linnean Society. An isolated 

 naturalist, away from all the centres of learning and of science, and with 

 few to sympathise with his pursuits, the difficulties in the way of Templeton 

 were great. Like all true men, however, he had the root of the matter 

 within himself, and ultimately he was cheered wdth a sight of the dawn 

 of the better day when a love of nature should be wider diffused, and his 

 labours more fully appreciated. 



David Moore, Ph.D., F.L.S., M.R.I.A. 



Bom at Dundee, in 1807, died at Dublin, after a short illness, in 1879. 



The name of Dr. Moore will ever be remembered as amongst the ablest 

 and most earnest of British botanists. At the age of twenty -one he 

 came to Dublin as assistant to Mr. J. T. Mackay, the Director of Trinity 

 College Gardens ; this connection with a man zealously devoted to Irish 

 botany perhaps originated, but, doubtless, intensified yoimg Moore's 

 aspirations in the same direction. About the year 1833 or 1834 he 

 received an appointment on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Captain, 

 afterwards General Portlock, F.G.S., being the head of the Geological 

 and Natural History sections of this Sm-vey, Mr. Moore was attached to 

 his staff in the character of Botanist. This was a happy selection, as it 

 afforded the botanist rare opportunities for herborizing in a region but 

 little known, and the public secvired the services of the most competent 

 man. 



The district surveyed was the County of Derry fuUy, and Coimty 

 Antrim partially, mainly the northern part of the county. Mr. Moore 

 was now in his element, and appHed himself to his work with zeal and 

 success. At the northern end of Lough Neagh he discovered Carex 

 Buxbaumii, a sedge which is not known elsewhere in Britain, and also 

 Calamagrostis Sookeri, a grass that is confined to the margin of that lake. 

 The more important of Moore's plants were recorded in Colby's Survey of 

 Londonderry, and many notes were supplied to Dickie's Flora of Ulster, 

 but the full results of this work were only obtained when the Cybele 

 Hibemica, the SjTiopsis of Irish Mosses, and the Report on Irish 

 Hepaticae were published. Moore was an acute observer, and his trained 

 eye detected many species not hitherto recognised in Ireland. He took the 

 greatest interest in Cryptogamic plants. He collected Lichens, and AlgcB ; 

 of the latter he had an excellent knowledge, and in addition to finding 

 several not previously known in Britain, he discovered some species that 

 were new to science His work amongst the Musci and HepaticcB was not 

 less extensive, and as the successor of Dawson Turner and Dr. Taylor he 

 still further advanced our knowledge of these groups. Subsequently 



