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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 of Unionide : Anodonta hockin- 
gensis; A. sommersi; A. hydei; A. freidi. Dr. Lea named, in his 
honor, Succinea mooresi. <A fossil erinoid, Zeocrinus mooresi W hit- 
field, and a fossil bivalve from Carbon Hill, Sckizodus 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. 
Asa 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 understand- 
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 
