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solve some knotty question or encourage his flagging energy. 
Brothers of the hammer have many such experiences. 
In the year 1849 we find his name appearing before the public. 
The first meeting of the Somerset Archeological and Natural 
History Society was held at Taunton, under the presidency of Sir 
Walter C. Trevelyan, when the celebrated Dean of Westminster, 
Dr. Buckland, gave an address on the geology of the district. 
Charles Moore was evidently present, for we find that he ex- 
hibited in the temporary museum ‘‘a rich collection of fossil fish 
and insects from the Lias near Ilminster.” In the following year 
(1850) he addressed an Evening Meeting of that Society at Bridg- 
water on the Lias formation, and promised to embody his views. 
in a future paper. This was read at the Bath meeting on Sept. 
21st., and published in the Proceedings for 1852 (vol. ii. p. 61): 
under the title of the “ Paleontology of the Middle and Upper 
Lias,” and contained an interesting account of his early days at 
Ilminster, and his researches in the Middle and’ Upper Lias beds 
of that locality. Until very recently those beds, he writes, were 
supposed to belong to the Inferior Oolite, and he claims to have 
placed them in their true position, as underlying and distinct 
from the Inferior Oolite ; asserting that from his intimate acquaint- 
ance with the Lower Lias beds at Twerton, and those ‘of the 
Inferior Oolite in the neighbourhood of Bath, he was able to show 
that they hold not only a distinct position but also a fauna 
peculiarly their own. It was in this paper that he alludes 
to the discovery of that marvelously rich yellow Limestone 
band in the Upper Lias, only from 4 to 54 inches thick, 
called the “ Saurian, Fish and Insect bed,’ from which he 
obtained his beautiful Pachycormi, now deposited in the 
Bath Museum and still awaiting some specialist to describe.* 
* Since this was written, Arthur Smith Woodward, F.G.S., of the 
British Museum, has visited the collection and is preparing a monogram 
on these fossil fish of the Upper Lias. 
