Walter Cecil Moore

Walter Cecil Moore (1900, Frome, Somerset, UK – 18 November 1967) was an English mycologist and phytopathologist. He was the president of the British Mycological Society in 1941 and the president of the Association of Applied Biologists from 1947 to 1948.

Biography Walter Cecil Moore was a pupil at Sexey's School, Bruton — of which another former pupil was F. T. Brooks. In 1919 Moore matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated there in 1922 with a bachelor's degree in natural sciences Moore published many scientific articles and several books. His 1939 book Diseases of Bulbs and his 1959 book British Parasitic Fungi are particularly noteworthy.

From 1946 to 1951 Moore was co-editor-in-chief of the Transactions of the British Mycological Society.

Selected publications

(See Pythium.) Most of Buddin's more important work was done in collaboration with Elsie Maud Wakefield.

a report prepared by a committee consisting of G. C. Ainsworth, Miss E. M. Blackwell, K. St G. Cartwright, R. V. Harris, W. C. Moore (Chairman), J. Ramsbottom, G. Smith, and Miss E. M. Wakefield (Convener)