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by the hope that something might still be left for him to accomplish. 
He was then actively engaged in the arrangement of his collection, 
which he intended to form as a free museum for the city. For this 
purpose he had come to an agreement with the authorities of the 
Royal Literary and Scientific Institution to deposit his specimens 
unter their roof on certain conditions. These they seem to have 
been very glad to accede to at the time, as their finances were as 
usual at a very low ebb, and the lectures held in the large room 
proving a failure, this room was given up to Moore’s collection ;. 
and here it remained during his life-time, an advantage, as he 
considered it, to the Institution, and at the same time a great 
convenience to himself and fully meriting the world-wide reputa- 
tion accorded to it. Owing to recent changes, which were thought. 
by some conducive to the interest of the Institution, the cases. 
have been relegated to an upper room built for the purpose ; the 
‘‘Field” collection of Minerals and the Saurians still on the 
walls being dissociated trom the other specimens, the room revert- 
ing to its old uses of a lecture hall. The close attention necessi- 
tated by this arrangement of his collection prevented him from 
becoming familiar with the geological details of the neighbourhood. 
Future researches, however, soon rewarded the keen eye and the 
busy hammer, and he soon finds that there is something left 
for him to accomplish, his fame crescit ewndo. Report reaches 
him that valuable beds of stone had been found at Dundry, near 
Bristol, the old hunter is off to his happy hunting grounds and 
visit after visit is paid to the quarries and sections in the neigh- 
hood. The result being (as he tells us) that from certain thin 
bands of sandy clay (two cwt. of which he examined under a 
lens daily for several months) on the N. side of the hill near the 
village of Bishport, he discovered a series of minute Brachiopoda 
hitherto unknown, i.¢., Zellania, Thecideum, Rhynconella, and 
Spirifer, figured and described in that paper. 
At the next meeting at Dunster, in 1855, he gives an interest- 
ing account of further discoveries made in the Oolite in the neigh- 
