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especially taking care to enlist the services of numerous friendly sea- 

 captains in obtaining specimens ; and the result of his labours is one 

 of the foremost among provincial Museums, not merely of value to the 

 student, but full of interest to the general sight-seeing public. Mr. 

 Moore, moreover, not merely accumulated treasures, but made them 

 available for the advancement of research, either by describing the 

 novelties himself or by submitting them to those actively engaged in 

 investigation — to Owen, Huxley, W. K. Parker, Darwin, and many 

 others, who recognised him as a valued coadjutor. At the same time 

 he interested himself in the spread of scientific teaching among the 

 people, frequently lecturing ; and during the years 1865 to 1884 he 

 arranged and carried on the Liverpool Free Public Lectures. So 

 long ago as i860, Mr. Moore was elected a Corresponding Member of 

 the Zoological Society of London ; and quite lately he was made an 

 Associate of the Linnean Society and an Honorary Member of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. He was identified, 

 more or less actively, with all the scientific bodies in the city of 

 his adoption,. and the large representative gathering at his funeral 

 testified to the esteem in which he was held by those most intimately 

 associated with him. 



Mr. James Plant, F.G.S., died at Leicester on November 8, 

 aged seventy-four. He was an active member of the British Asso- 

 ciation Boulder Committee, and did much useful geological work in 

 the neighbourhood of Leicester. 



M. Victor de Robillard, of Port Louis, Mauritius, well-known 

 as an enthusiastic collector of Natural History specimens, died 

 about three months ago. For a long time past he had sent to the 

 British Museum rare and beautiful specimens of marine animals, one 

 of the finest of which, Cidaris cnvvatispinis, was described by Professor 

 Bell so recently as November i before the Zoological Society of 

 London. The Botanical Department of the British Museum secured 

 Robillard's collection of marine algse a few years ago. 



