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the hard working curator of Bristol Museum, who had taken an 
active interest in carrying out the wishes of the committee, and 
has already published a list of Fossil types in the Bristol Museum, 
and made a catalogue of the same in the Woodwardian Museum, 
Cambridge, wrote to me during the summer of last year respecting 
the many valuable type and described Fossils in the Bath Museum, 
suggesting the desirability of drawing up a list of these, and of 
this being published in the Proceedings of our Club; he at the 
same time undertaking the catalogue if I would contribute a few 
introductory remarks on the scientific work of the late Charles 
Moore and his labours in the Geological field. Every facility was 
afforded him for the inspection and examination of the specimens _ 
during the prosecution of the work he so willingly undertook, 
and the accompanying valuable catalogue is the result. 
Whilst preparing a few data to carry out my portion of the 
work a visit to our venerable President in the autumn acted as a 
stimulus to my intention ; for whilst talking over the affairs of 
the Club (in whose work he still takes such a warm interest) he 
alluded to the fact that there had not been any record in our 
Proceedings of Charles Moore’s Geological work, and to my great 
delight said, “If you will undertake to do this I will give you 
another paper this session ”—hence that admirable paper, given 
on the 11th November, on “ The Distribution and Movements of 
British Animals and Plants,” marked with his usual accuracy of 
observation and lucidity of diction, showing no abatement in his 
accustomed intellectual vigour. These preliminary remarks I 
thought might interest our members and explain at the same 
time my reasons for the following notes. 
Time passes so rapidly (especially with those who are advanced 
in years) that it is difficult to realize the fact that a decade has 
slipped away since that eager, anxious, worn face was amongst 
us, working to the last with indomitable pluck at his engrossing 
pursuit, fighting against that insidious disease to which he finally 
succumbed—but so it is. Those of us who have the list of 
