ZOOLOGISTS OF NORTH WALES. 



The following Biogi-aphies are additional to those appearing 

 in The Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales. 



SMITH.— 1823-1888. 



Henry Ecroyd Smith was born at Doncaster, 28th August, 

 1823, and died at Middleham, Yorks, in 1888. He went to 

 Victoria in 1852, but appears to have lived the greater part 

 of his later years in the neighbourhood of Liverpool. He 

 contributed to the Flora of Liverpool, 1872, and wrote various 

 papers and local natural history notes for local periodicals. 

 In the Liverpool Naturalists' Journal, 1866, he published a 

 paper entitled " A day among the Bird Breeders at the Point 

 of Air," in which he records the Lesser Tern, nesting there, and 

 mentions having found it the previous year at the east end 

 of the Menai Straits. Other species found breeding at Point 

 of Air were the Ringed Plover, Oyster Catcher, Sheld Duck, 

 and Stock Dove. 



MOORE.— 1824-1892. 



Thomas John Moore was born in London in 1824. His father 

 was a Norfolk man, but got an appointment on the staff of the 

 Zoological Society, so that from his earliest years the son was 

 able to study animals, alive and dead, his love of natural history 

 growing as years went by. In 1 843 he was appointed as assistant 

 in the care of Lord Derby's menagerie and aviary at Knowsley. 

 On the death of that nobleman in 1851 the collection of stuffed 

 specimens was transferred to Liverpool and the public museum 

 founded, T. J. Moore being its first curator, a post which he 

 filled with conspicuous ability for more than 40 years. His 

 work was mainly practical and his literary contributions rather 

 scanty. His most important paper was a Report on the Seals 

 and Wliales of the Liverpool district, published by the Liverpool 

 Marine Biological Committee in 1889. Besides this he con- 

 tributed various short notes and records of species new to 

 the district to the Naturalists' Scrap Book and other local 

 periodicals. With regard to North Wales, the only portion 

 of the Fauna he affected was the Whales and Fishes of the Dee 

 Estuary, his records being referred to in the present volume 



