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graphical geology. The fame of this busy and _ intelligent 
Somerset worker seems to have attracted about this time the 
attention of the London geologists, and I well remember the 
story he told me of a patronising visit paid to his humble residence 
by some of the magnates of H.M. Geological Survey, who were 
at work in the district ; how they made use of his detailed know- 
ledge of the locality without apparently any acknowledgement of 
the source whence it came. This, and subsequent treatment 
which he received, may have induced him to entertain that 
jealous suspicion of professional geologists which, though some- 
what modified in later years, when a more generous spirit of 
appreciation of his great work prevailed, he entertained towards 
them almost to the last, 
In his early days at Ilminster he seems to have been fortunate 
in making the acquaintance of Mr. Norris, a general medical 
practitioner at S. Petherton, a man of considerable culture, 
an ardent geological and palzontological student, and often 
corresponding with such men as Lyell, Mantell, and Murchison. 
His father (Mr. Hugh Norris, the well-known antiquary and 
late one of the Editors of the Somerset and Dorset Notes, telis 
me) was always ready on a leisure evening to welcome the visits 
of the retiring but enthusiastic young printer ; on which occasions 
they would shut themselves up in “‘the museum,” as his father’s 
den was called, and spend a pleasant hour in discussing the 
treasures of the neighbouring rocks and quarries. And with 
pardonable pride he expresses his conviction that the elder 
student’s encouragement exercised a real influence on the young 
Moore’s future career. It was about this time too that he seems 
to have become acquainted with Thomas Rupert Jones, late 
Professor of Geology at the Staff College, Sandhurst, and to have 
visited with him the “‘stone pits,” as they were called, near 
Ilminster. How often does the student, who has become eminent 
in any scientific or other pursuit in after life, date his success from 
the day when a “deus dignus ex vindice nodus” appeared to 
