50 IN MEMORIAM—T. J. MOORE. 
their now recognised position as free places of interest and instruc- 
tion for the public the Liverpool Museum has practically been the 
pioneer of museums in the provinces, and from its very inception 
r. Moore has been the curator of it. The great care and 
knowledge displayed in its arrangement, and the foresight, skill, and 
inventive faculty manifested in the cases and fittings are the best 
testimony to the unwearied energy and marvellous ability of its 
curator. 
In speaking of himself, Mr. Moore said :—‘ My life has been a 
specially quiet, simple, and uneventful one. I have served but 
three masters—the Zoological Society of London ; Edward, thirteenth 
Earl of Derby, at Know es ; and the Corporation of Liverpool, and 
this in unbroken sequenc 
Mr. Moore was idee in London, in 1824. His father was a 
Norfolk man, and soon after his marriage obtained an appointment 
on the staff of the Zoological Society. Here from his early childhood 
his son became a careful observer of animals, living and dead, and 
acquired that love for the study of Natural History that remained 
with him and increased with increasing years, Here, too, in his 
youth, he made the acquaintance of Gould—who was curator to the 
Zoological Society—,Waterhouse, Martin, and other naturalists of 
repute who were then on the staff. In 1843 he received and accepted 
the offer of an appointment, under Lord Derby, as assistant to 
Mr. Thomson, Superintendent of the menagerie and aviary of that 
nobleman at Knowsley, where Lord Derby had devoted a hundred 
acres of land and as many of water to the well-being and comfort of 
the magnificent collection of mammals and birds that he had got 
together from all parts of the world, besides a well-stocked museum 
of stuffed and mounted specimens inside Knowsley Hall. For eight 
years Mr. Moore remained at Knowsley, surrounded by unrivalled 
opportunities for the study of Natura! History, and that he availed 
himself fully of these opportunities the Liverpool Museum sufficiently 
shows. ‘The advantage of being thus placed, where a careful study 
of the living forms and habits of animals could be made, is well seen 
in the life-like attitudes of form and grouping which so pre-eminently 
characterise the stuffed specimens in the Liverpool Museum. 
n the death of the Earl of Derby, in 1851, his collection of 
stuffed specimens and skins was offered to the Corporation of 
Liverpool on condition of its being maintained for public use. 
The offer was accepted, and an Act of Parliament obtained author- 
ising the establishment of a Museum and Library in Liverpool. 
The Museum was first opened in Duke Street, Mr. Moore being 
appointed Curator, and under his superintendence the Derby 
Naturalist, 
