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This was followed by another “On the organic contents of the 
Lead veins of Allenheads and other Lead veins of Yorkshire.” 
These organisms he considered had been washed into the fissures 
by the action of later seas, as he had before stated to have been 
the case in the mineral veins of the Carboniferous Limestones of 
the W. of England. He draws especial attention to the presence 
in the clayey infilling of the “New Rake” vein, of a great 
quantity of ‘ Conodonts”—small tooth and comb-like bodies 
hitherto found only in the Upper Silurian bone beds, and 
described by Dr. Pander as fish-teeth, but since defined by Dr. 
Harley as of crustacean origin. In the following year, in the 
midst of his arduous labours as one of the local Secretaries at 
Bath, he found time to lay before Section C., then under the 
Presidency of Prof. Phillips, the specimens of Saurians, Fish and 
Cuttle-fish he had discovered in the Upper Lias at Ilminster ; and 
the mammalian and fish-teeth (70,000 in number) obtained from 
the greenish clay which filled the fissures at Holwell, and the 
remains of the extinct animals from the drift that surrounded 
Bath. The President said that the Section had heard one of the 
most interesting and instructive addresses that could be possibly 
given to the British Association. They had expected a most 
interesting communication from Mr. Moore, but not to the full 
the great treat he had given them, illustrated as it was with 
specimens of his own discovery of the greatest possible value and 
interest, Sir Charles Lyell, who was also present, spoke of 
Moore’s discoveries in the Mammalian drift of the Bath basin as 
rendering essential service to science, alluding especially to his 
finding the male and female musk sheep in that neighbourhood. 
The excursion to Frome and the Vallis under his guidance was 
a memorable one, and the distinguished savans who were present 
expressed their great satisfaction at the interesting geological 
information he had given to them. The acknowledged success of 
the Bath Meeting, considered to be one of the most brilliant that 
had ever been held, was mainly due to Charles Moore’s unwearied 
labours and his great power of organisation. 
