{{Short description|British naturalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} right|170px '''Alexander Goodman More''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE|FLS|MRIA}} (5 September 1830 – 22 March 1895) was a British naturalist.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Life and letters of Alexander Goodman More, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., M.R.I.A., with selections from his zoological and botanical writings; (1898) |publisher=California Digital Library |url=https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofale00morerich|year=1898 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Boase, Frederic|authorlink=Frederic Boase|title=Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died during the years 1850–1900|year=1921|volume=6, L-Z|chapter=More, Alexander Goodman|page=243|chapter-url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066335905;view=1up;seq=134}}</ref>

==Life== Born in London, More was educated at Rugby School, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1850.<ref>{{acad|MR849AG|More, Alexander Goodman}}</ref> He did not graduate, however, though he remained at Trinity until 1855: periods of illness interrupted his studies. He did make contact with a number of botanists and ornithologists there. He occupied himself with natural history.

In 1866, in conjunction with David Moore, he published "an excellent account on the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland,"<ref name=improc>{{cite journal | author = James Geikie | date = 1895 | title = Chairman's Opening Address | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | volume = 21 | pages = 13–14 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48758364 }}</ref> titled ''Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica.''

From 1867 to 1887 he was Curator of the Natural History Museum of the Royal Dublin Society.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=54094|title=More, Alexander Goodman|first=E. Charles|last=Nelson}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=9 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1887 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Dickson, Ramsay Heatley Traquair, Robert Gray and Alexander Buchan.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=9 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Publications==

* ''Cybele Hibernica'' (1866), with David Moore.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Collins |first=Timothy |date=1998 |title=Dodos and Discord: A Biographical Note on A.G. Melville of Queen's College Galway |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25550197 |journal=Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society |volume=50 |pages=90–111 |jstor=25550197 |issn=0332-415X}}</ref> * ''On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain'' (1865)

== References == {{reflist}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:More, Alexander Goodman}} Category:1830 births Category:1895 deaths Category:19th-century British naturalists Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Category:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Category:Members of the Royal Irish Academy Category:19th-century Irish botanists Category:People educated at Rugby School

{{UK-scientist-stub}}