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A letter appears in the Geological Magazine (vol. ii., N.S., 
p. 627) December 1875, arising out of an occurrence at the Bristol 
Meeting of that year, and witnessed by myself, in which he has a 
shot at his old antagonist, Dr. Wright. Mr. Longe, of Cheltenham, 
had given to Charles Moore a perfect example of the interesting 
little Crinoid Plicatocrinus, which he had found in the Lias near 
Bridport, in Dorset. Dr. Wright, to whom he had first shown the 
specimen, seems to have referred it to the family Cirripedia ; this 
Moore told Mr. Longe at the time was incorrect as it was one of 
the Crinoidea, and that he had already found several of that 
genera and species from the same geological horizon as those 
found on the Continent. In the meantime, shortly after the 
Bristol Meeting, a letter appeared in the Geological Magazine for 
October from Dr, Wright, describing it as Cotylederma, and as 
the first English specimen of this genus from our Lias beds. To 
this Moore replies in November, that on his return home from the 
Bristol Meeting he found that it belonged to Plicatocrinus and 
not to Cotylederma as he first supposed ; he complains that the 
Doctor had forgotten the fact of his having been shown some — 
examples of that genus in the Bath Museum, and stated that he 
had taken a beautiful specimen of the genus Solanocrinus, recently 
found in the Oolitic strata, and the first recorded British genus 
to the Meeting, but had withheld a notice of it in order to have 
drawings prepared of Mr. Longe’s Plicatoerinus. 
This little passage of arms between two rival geologists was 
another intsance of the way in which Moore’s discoveries were 
anticipated, owing to the delay in making them known through 
the medium of some periodical. 
In 1879 he again recurs to one of his favourite subjects, the 
Aptychi. This was at the Sheffield Meeting of the B. A. Speak- 
ing of the great variety of opinion that had existed as to the 
zoological position of this curious triangular-organism, he said 
that his doubt that it was the operculum of an Ammonite (with 
which cephalopod it was always found) expressed in a former paper 
