Justin P. Moore

{{short description|American mycologist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Justin Payson Moore | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth date |1840|05|08}} | birth_place = Augusta, Maine, USA | death_date = {{death date |1923|08|10}} | death_place = Oakland, California, USA | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = mycology; librarianship | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = catalogue of USA Pacific Coast fungi; vice-president California Academy of Sciences | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = Charlotte D. Moore | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }}

'''Justin Payson Moore''' (1840–1923) was a natural historian, particularly interested in mycology. He became vice-president of the California Academy of Sciences from 1880 - 1883.

==Career== Moore was elected a member of the California Academy of Sciences in 1875 and was the vice-president in 1880–1883 and again in 1886, although he resigned in October 1886.<ref name="Daniel 20083">{{cite journal |last1=Daniel |first1=Thomas F |date=2008 |title=One hundred and fifty years of botany at the California Academy of Sciences (1853–2003) |url=https://www.calacademy.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/pdf/history_botany_at_cas_pcas_v59apr08_daniel_pp_215-305lr.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences |series=Series 4 |volume=59 |issue=7 |pages=215–305 |df=ymd-all}}</ref>

Moore had broad interests in natural history but his major focus was fungi. He became the academy's curator of botany in 1882 and 1883. He co-authored the important early work ''Catalogue of the Pacific Coast Fungi'' with H. W. Harkness in 1880 (published by the California Academy of Sciences).<ref name="Hittell 1997">{{cite book |last1=Hittell |first1=T H |title=A narrative history of the California Academy of Sciences, 1853–1906 |date=1997 |publisher=California Academy of Sciences |pages=11–484}}</ref>

After 1886 he was not active in the academy but he donated books and money for rebuilding the academy after the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco.<ref name="Leviton & Aldrich 1997">{{cite book |last1=Leviton |first1=A E |last2=Aldrich |first2=ML |title=Theodore Henry Hittell's the California Academy of Sciences: a Narrative History, 1853–1906. |date=1997 |publisher=Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences}}</ref>

Moore resigned from the academy in 1889 and for 20 years from the late 1890s was librarian and assistant secretary of the Fire Underwriters Association of the Pacific.

==Personal life== Justin Payson Moore was born in Augusta, Maine on 8 May, probably in 1840. He was probably trained as a minister and sent to Benicia in California in October 1865 by the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Moore was married and his wife, Charlotte D. Moore, outlived him.<ref name="Daniel 20083" />

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