Person PX10680 Moore; John Edmund Sharrock (1870-1947) Moore John Edmund Sharrock 1870-1947 Male

Morre studied at the Royal College of Science, mostly working under the aegis of G.B. Howes (1853–1905), the professor of Zoology. Between 16 October 1893 and 9 June 1894 Moore worked at the Zoological Station in Naples. He was leader of the First Tanganyika Expedition which thanks to Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847–1929) was supported by the Royal Society; it left England in the autumn of 1895 and returned in early 1897. A second more extensive expedition was undertaken between the spring of 1899 and the middle of 1900. During this expedition he also attempted the first ascent of one of the summits of the Ruwenzori Range which had been identified with Ptolemy’s ‘Mountains of the Moon’; he was in fact the first to reach the snowline in the range, attaining 14,900 feet and proved the existence of permanent glaciers. He does not appear to have collected on the range and was not, I think, interested in ‘natural history’ in that sense. He wrote a delightful and most readable book (Moore, 1901) illustrated with photographs, drawings and pleasant paintings of his own. The scientific account was not published until 1903 and gives in detail the evidence for his inland Jurassic sea theory. Soon after he returned from the expedition he was appointed Demonstrator in Zoology and served as Acting Professor in 1903 and 1905 at the Royal College when Howes was in poor health. Howes died in February 1905 but Moore did not succeed to the professorship but moved to the University of Liverpool as Director of the Cancer Research Laboratories and in 1906 became Professor of Experimental and Pathological Cytology in that university. In 1904 Moore married Heloise Salvin, daughter of naturalist Osbert Salvin (1833–1898) (of Biologia Centrali-Americana fame). Moore suddenly stopped all scientific work in 1908 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Cja833 20/11/2012 Cja833 20/11/2012 11a3bc02-f4d0-44fa-83f2-8919f05acaaf