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the same depth of soil being below it. The floor was one mass 
of sand and charcoal, but had never been sealed up by stalagmite. 
Broken bones and thousands of flint flakes had been collected 
from it. 
Moore, though thinking that it was of considerable antiquity, 
questioned the statement of Dr. Riviere who carried it back to 
the period of the extinct mammalia. A piece of specular iron 
ore found in the jaw of the skeleton, probably either placed in 
the mouth or worn as a charm, was exhibited. In how profitablea 
way a man with a keen eye for nature’s wonders, though an 
invalid, can spend his time ! 
His last paper to the Club was read on February 4th, 1880, 
and gave an account of the Hedgemead landslip. He first describes 
the formation of the Bath valley by denudation, and alludes to 
the fact that it was not known until 1864 that a great line of 
dislocation passed under Bath, as pointed out to him by Sir 
Charles Lyell. This fault has either depressed the S. side, or 
elevated the N. to the extent of 200ft. Coming to the cause of the 
landslip, he attributed it to the natural slipping of the talus, aided 
by water, accelerated recently by the weight superimposed by the 
number of houses that have been built on the creeping surface. 
Watching the sinking of a well in the Upper Hedgemead road, 
not far below the West end of Camden Crescent, he found 
detritus for the first 20ft. ; this rested on Upper Lias clay densely 
laminated with irregular layers of blue stone, with intermediate 
beds of clay at the base, 45ft.; the Marlstone or top bed of the 
Middle Lias being struck at the depth of 65ft. from the surface. 
From these Upper Lias clays he found three genera of fish, 
Hybodus, Lepidotus and Leptolepis, impressions of an Eryon, and 
gives a list of numerous Mollusca. 
We now come to his last appearance at our Meetings, changed 
from the evening to the afternoon, when a paper was given on 
Bitumen, its history and origin. Moore joined in the discussion 
which ensued after the paper, and stated that Bitumen had only 
