{{short description|New Zealand botanist and ecologist (1906–1987)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Lucy Moore | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=100%}} | image =Lucy Beatrice Moore 1959.jpg | image_size = | caption = Moore in 1959 | birth_name = Lucy Beatrice Moore | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|07|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Warkworth, New Zealand|Warkworth]], New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|06|09|1906|07|14|df=y}} | death_place = [[Orewa]], New Zealand | field = [[Botany]] | work_institution = [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)|New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR)]] | alma_mater = [[University of Auckland|Auckland University College]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Flora of New Zealand]] }}
'''Lucy Beatrice Moore''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}}, {{post-nominals|country=UK|FLS|size=85%}} (14 July 1906 – 9 June 1987) was a New Zealand botanist and ecologist.
==Biography== ===Early life and education=== Moore was born in [[Warkworth, New Zealand|Warkworth]], New Zealand, on 14 July 1906, the daughter of Janet Morison and Harry Blomfield Moore, and the grand-daughter of William and Frances Moore.<ref name="DNZB Moore">{{DNZB|last=Morton|first=John|id=5m55|title=Lucy Beatrice Moore|access-date=23 April 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Wilderness Women Stories of New Zealand women at home in the wilderness|last1=Dann|first1=Christine|date=1989|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9780140113860|pages=67–78|first2=Pip|last2=Lynch}}</ref> William was also known as "Rainbow Will", from his gold prospecting days in the Coromandel area.<ref name=":0" /> Frances was a sister of Charles Blomfield, a well-known nineteenth-century New Zealand landscape painter.<ref name=":0" /> Moore's father was a local librarian and keen amateur naturalist.<ref name="NZ Women 1992">{{cite book |author1-first=Rae |author1-last=Julian |editor1-last=Macdonald|editor1-first=Charlotte|title=The book of New Zealand women = Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa |date=1992 |publisher=Williams |location=Wellington |isbn=0908912048 |pages=451–454|edition=Repr. (twice)}}</ref> She went to primary school at Warkworth<ref name="DNZB Moore" /> and then left home to attend [[Epsom Girls' Grammar School|Epsom Girls' Grammar school]] in Auckland.<ref name="NZ Women 1992" /> She won both a Junior and a Senior National Scholarship at Epsom Girls' as well as a University National Scholarship after enrolling as a student at [[University of Auckland|Auckland University College]] in 1925. Moore's first significant piece of research was completed in the Coromandel region, north of her grand-father's gold claim.<ref name=":0" /> She met her lifelong friend, Lucy Cranwell, at Auckland University and together they enjoyed tramping.<ref name=":0" /> Moore graduated MSc with first-class honours in 1929<ref name="NZ Women 1992" /> under the direction of the botanist [[T. L. Lancaster]]. Her thesis was on the root parasite ''[[Dactylanthus taylorii|Dactylanthus]]''.<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
===Career=== [[File:Lucy Beatrice Moore 1959b.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Moore at work in 1959]] Moore was at first unsuccessful in her attempt to work as a botanist. She applied for but failed to obtain positions at both the [[University of Canterbury]] and [[Victoria University of Wellington]]. This was in spite of the fact that her botanic research and writing was extremely prolific and praised by eminent botanists such as Dr [[Leonard Cockayne]]. She was employed from 1929 to 1938 as a demonstrator in zoology at the University of Auckland. She was awarded the [[Duffus Lubecki Scholarship]] annually between 1929 and 1931. This scholarship enabled her to undertake scientific research and she was able to balance this work with her demonstrating commitments.<ref name="NZ Women 1992" />
She undertook a series of trips to [[Mt Moehau]] at the tip of the [[Coromandel Peninsula]] as field work for the Duffus Lubecki Scholarship. She was accompanied on most of these field trips by her close friend and fellow botanist, [[Lucy Cranwell]]. The two botanists made a number of field trips into remote parts of the country in order to contribute to information about native flora. The Moehau expeditions were followed in 1930 by a field trip to [[Maungapohatu]], deep in the heart of the [[Urewera]] country.<ref name="NZ Women 1992" /> Together they wrote important papers on the northern high-peak vegetation of Mt Moehau and Maungapohatu, and on the [[Hen and Chickens Islands]].
In May 1935 the two botanists began a 10-month trip to Britain and Europe, where they attended botanical congresses in [[London]] and [[Amsterdam]]. Moore had the opportunity to work briefly at Kristineberg and Plymouth marine biological stations, and to demonstrate zoology at [[University College London]]. Upon their return to New Zealand they continued their field work together. Moore and Cranwell also produced zoological research, writing a highly original and influential joint paper on the intertidal zonation of the [[Poor Knights Islands]] that was published in 1938.<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
In 1938 Moore obtained a position in the botany division of the [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)|Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (DSIR). She was given responsibility for lower plants, and also assigned to work on weeds. This led to an important paper on the pasture invasion and life history of the hard fern [[Paesia]], published in 1942.<ref name="DNZB Moore" /> During the Second World War, she developed a project involving the extraction of [[agar]] from seaweed, in order to grow cultures for bacteria. Japan had previously been the world supplier of agar.<ref name="NZ Women 1992" /> In later years Moore was to remain an [[phycologist|algologist]], working with the botanical artist [[Nancy Adams|Nancy M. Adams]] to produce the widely read ''Plants of the New Zealand coast'' in 1963.<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
After the war Moore changed her research field to the tussock-lands of Molesworth, in [[Marlborough Region|Marlborough]].<ref name="NZ Women 1992" /> She published on the invasive scabweed ''[[Raoulia]]'' in 1953, on Rumex-dominated communities in 1954, and in 1955 and 1956 on introduced grass and tussock establishment. At the International Botanical Congress at Stockholm in 1950 she spoke on both ''Raoulia'' ecology and ''[[Sphacelaria]]'', a small brown alga.<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
In 1953 Moore began worked with Dr [[Harry Allan]] on Volume I of the ''Flora of New Zealand''. Her contributions include taxonomic revision in ''[[Colobanthus]]'', ''[[Myosotis]]'', ''[[Ourisia]]'', ''[[Plantago]]'', ''[[Pomaderris]]'', and ''[[Veronica (plant)|Veronica]]'' (as ''Hebe'').<ref>{{Cite book|last=Allan|first=Harry Howard|title=Flora of New Zealand, Vol. 1|publisher=Government Printer|year=1961|location=Wellington, New Zealand|pages=967–975}}</ref> Allan's death in 1957 left her with editorial responsibility for the whole project.<ref name="DNZB Moore" /> She produced Volume II of the series with Dr [[Elizabeth Edgar]].<ref name="NZ Women 1992" /> In 1960 Moore moved to the botany division of the DSIR at [[Lincoln, New Zealand|Lincoln]].<ref name="NZ Women 1992" /> The shift coincided with the start of work on the second volume of the series. This work prompted Moore to write separate papers on [[asteliads]], ''[[Bulbinella]]'', ''[[Libertia]]'' and [[orchids]]. Published in 1970, Volume II of Flora of New Zealand was hailed for its thorough scholarship.<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
===Retirement=== Although Moore retired in 1971 she remained active at Lincoln until 1980. The final grassland ecology bulletin, ''The changing vegetation of Molesworth station, New Zealand, 1944 to 1971'', appeared in 1976, and in 1978 she produced ''The Oxford Book of New Zealand Plants'' with [[J. B. Irwin]] as [[botanical illustrator]]. She returned to Warkworth in 1980.<ref name="DNZB Moore" /> In 1985 she gave a lecture to the [[Auckland Botanical Society]] looking back on the work she and Cranwell did in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lucy Moore|editor1-last=Priestley|editor1-first=Rebecca|title=The Awa book of New Zealand science|chapter=The Two Lucies|date=2008|publisher=Awa Press|location=Wellington, New Zealand|isbn=9780958262996|pages=150–155}}</ref> In 1986 she gave another lecture, the inaugural [[Lucy Cranwell Lecture]] to the Auckland Botanical Society.<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
===Death=== Moore died on 9 June 1987 at her Orewa rest home.<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
==Published works== Along with the above-mentioned books, Moore published numerous scientific papers on a range of subjects including marine and terrestrial ecology, the taxonomy of flowering plants, seaweeds and barnacles, plant geography, flower biology, carpology and the history of New Zealand botany.<ref name="NZ Women 1992" />
==Honours and awards== [[File:Lucy Moore Memorial Park.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|Lucy Moore Memorial Park]] In 1945, Moore was elected a fellow of the [[Linnean Society]] of London. She was appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|Member of the Order of the British Empire]] in the [[1959 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|1959 Queen's Birthday Honours]], and in 1963 the University of Canterbury gave her its DSc for her Hebe research. A fellow of the [[Royal Society of New Zealand]] from 1947, she was awarded its [[Hutton Medal]] in 1965. In the same year she delivered the [[Leonard Cockayne Memorial Lecture]]. In 1974 she was awarded the [[Marsden Medal|Sir Ernest Marsden Medal for Service to Science]] by the [[New Zealand Association of Scientists]].<ref name="DNZB Moore" />
Moore also established the [[Allan Mere Award]] in honour of [[Harry Allan]] which is now presented by the [[New Zealand Botanical Society]] to outstanding botanists in acknowledgement of their significant contribution to botany in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Allan Mere Award |url=http://www.nzbotanicalsociety.org.nz/pages/Allan_Mere_Award.html |website=New Zealand Botanical Society |access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref> The Mere that Moore donated for the prize is housed at the Allan Herbarium at Landcare Research, Lincoln.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wright |first1=Anthony |title=Presentation of Allan Mere for 2015 to Sir Alan Mark |journal=New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter |date=March 2016 |volume=123 |page=2 |url=http://www.nzbotanicalsociety.org.nz/newsletter/newsletters.html |access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref>
Lucy Moore Memorial Park in [[Warkworth, New Zealand|Warkworth]] is named after her.<ref>{{cite book | last=Bioletti | first=Harry | title=Rodney Coast to Coast | date=1992 | isbn=0-473-01296-0 |page=27 | publisher=Rodney District Council }}</ref>
The New Zealand native grass species ''[[Festuca luciarum]]'' is named after Moore and her fellow botanist [[Lucy Cranwell]].
In 2017, Moore was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "[[150 women in 150 words]]", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lucy Moore|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1918-1967/lucy-moore/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref>
==Authority abbreviation== {{botanist|L.B.Moore|Lucy Beatrice Moore}}
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