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within the thickness of a few feet. The Conglomerate resting on 
the Limestone was evidently the Rhetic bone bed, the dark 
coloured marks were probably thin representatives of a well- 
known bed of Black Marl lying under the White Lias in the 
interior of the Coal basin, while the light coloured beds of Lias, 
although differing slightly in lithological character, were doubt- 
less the true representatives of the Rheetic White Lias. 
The writer was unable to call to mind, that on any of his visits 
to Vallis with Mr. Moore this special feature was ever pointed 
out ; but feeling certain that it could not have escaped so keen 
an observer, a careful search was made amongst Mr. Moore’s 
contributions to various societies, in the hope of discovering some 
written notice on the subject. And the search was not in vain, 
for in a paper on Abnormal Secondary Deposits, which he con- 
tributed to the Geological Society in 1867, and in a second paper 
on the same subject in 1880, Mr. Moore has described with 
much accuracy, and in greater detail, the section here referred to. 
It was with a feeling of no little gratification the writer found 
his interpretation of this rock section thus confirmed, and he 
cannot leave this part of the subject without placing on record, 
- his deep sense of the earnest faithful work done by Mr. Moore 
in this district. The more his papers are read and studied, the 
more do they impress us with the thoroughness of all Mr. Moore’s 
work, carried on in the face of much bodily infirmity over a long 
series of years ; and the writer feels assured that the members of 
this Club will long bear in kindly memory the name of one, who 
did so much for the advancement of Geology throughout this 
district. 
HOLLWELL. 
Although the abandonment of the quarries at Hollwell has put 
an end to farther excavations, and there is no fresh discovery to 
be looked for in that direction, the opportunity was taken of ramb- 
ling over the old ground, in which Mr. Moore made his greatest 
