Frederic Moore

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Frederic Moore
Born
Frederic Moore

(1830-05-13)13 May 1830
United Kingdom
Died10 May 1907(1907-05-10) (aged 76)

Frederic Moore

entomologist
and illustrator. He produced six volumes of Lepidoptera Indica and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company.

A watercolour plate by Robert Templeton with notes by Moore on the left margin

It has been said that Moore was born at 33

E C Knight and John Nugent Fitch.[4]
Many species of butterfly were described by him in this work.

"Moore entered the doors of entomology by way of his artistic abilities. Dr. T. Horsfield (1777–1859), long associated with the East India Museum, required someone capable of doing natural history drawings and, through an introduction, Frederic Moore obtained the post. Thus began a lifetime association with Indian Lepidoptera"[5]

Moore's son F. C. Moore was also an artist and prepared many of the plates in

osteologist at the National Museum at Melbourne.[7]

The colours of Indian butterflies, based on the plates in the Lepidoptera Indica were studied by J.C. Mottram in 1918.[8]

Moore was an associate of the

Entomological Society of Stettin and of the Entomological Society of the Netherlands. His other works included A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the East-India Company (1854–58, with Thomas Horsfield
) and The Lepidoptera of Ceylon (1880–87).

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.3366/jsbnh.1975.7.3.273
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  2. ^ Anonymous (1890). "Obituary [of Frederic Moore 1830-1907]". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 43: 162–163.
  3. doi:10.1038/003328a0
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  4. doi:10.1155/1890/15636
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  5. ^ Gilbert, P. (2000). Butterfly Collectors and Painters. Four centuries of colour plates from The Library Collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing Pte Ltd. p. 78.
  6. ^ Moore, Frederic (1890). Lepidoptera Indica. Volume 1 (preface). London: L. Reeve & Co.
  7. doi:10.1038/110641a0
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  8. JSTOR 43426502
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