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Before bringing these notes to a close it is only right to 
mention, that Charles Moore frequently acted as guide and 
instructor to the members of the Bath Field Club in their weekly 
walks and longer excursions. 
Our President in his address to the Club in reference to the 
death of his friend, C. E. Broome, F.L.S., writes that it was 
mostly during their quiet walks alone that they carried on their 
botanical researches. The Club’s regular excursions, though very 
pleasant in themselves, afforded little opportunity for any steady 
work in Natural History. “I remember (he adds) once, our late 
much esteemed member, Charles Moore, on its being remarked 
that he seldom walked with the Club, gave as a reason, that 
there was ‘no liberty of action.” A large party wending its 
way to some pre-arranged place or object, can hardly be expected 
to make any long stand, whilst one of their number searches for 
fossils, or another looks for plants, stationary work of this kind 
is best done at other times.” 
It was was for this reason partly, that we do not find his name 
more frequently in our Proceedings. Whenever, however, he was 
able to snatch a day from his more important work, he would 
accede to my request and either give the Club an account of his 
discoveries, or conduct the Members to some of his well-known 
sections, but more frequently he would ask me to join him alone 
in some geological walk, 
I well remember an expedition of the Club to Southerndown, 
in 1865, when he accompanied us, and pointed out the “Sutton 
Stone ” sections so well displayed along the coast between Sutton 
exposed there. I well remember my anxiety at the time, when with 
difficulty I prevented him from climbing over the rails and going down 
the steep bank to examine the section. He was then very infirm, and 
it was only a very short time before his decease. The “ flirtation” 
alluded to referred to the late Mr. Weston of Ensleigh, who had just 
built his observatory on Lansdown and devoted his attention entirely 
to Astronomy. 
