Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

George Fletcher Moore (1798-1886)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Fletcher Moore (10 December 1798 – 30 December 1886) was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one [of] the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite" (Cameron, 2000). He conducted a number of exploring expeditions; was responsible for one of the earliest published records of the language of the Australian Aborigines of the Perth area; and was the author of Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia.

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PUBLICATIONS

Moore, G. F. 1842. A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the aborigines of Western Australia. London: W. S. Orr, xiii + 171 pp.

REFERENCE

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton's Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.