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By the death of JOHN CAERICK MOORE, science loses the last of that 

 band of ardent field-geologists who, during the first half of the present 

 century, did so much to investigate the underground structure of the 

 British Islands. Inspired by the example and animated by the 

 scientific principles of William Smith, they carried out in fuller detail 

 than was possible to their master, his great idea of delineating in 

 maps and sections the distribution and relations of the British strata 

 guided everywhere by the organic remains which they contain. 

 But while this band of workers which included such names as those 

 of Buckland, Conybeare, Webster, Mantell> Dixon, Lonsdale, 

 Sedgwick, Murchison, Fitton, De-la-Beche, Godwin- Austen, and 

 Phillips were so deeply influenced by the teaching of William 

 Smith, yet they were seldom, with the exception of the last-mentioned, 

 personally instructed by him, but derived their knowledge of his 

 principles and methods at second hand from men like Richardson, 

 Townsend, and Farey, who were proud to act as the disciples and 

 interpreters of the distinguished "Father of English Geology." 



John Carrick Moore came of a very famous stock. His grand- 

 father, Dr. John Moore, the friend and biographer of Smollett, was 

 the author of many works very famous in his day, of which the 

 novel " Zeluco " has been longest remembered. Three of the sons 

 of Dr. John Moore had very distinguished careers. The eldest 

 surviving son was General Sir John Moore, the hero of Corunna, and 

 a younger son was Admiral Sir Graham Moore, whose exploits on 

 the sea were scarely less notable than those of his elder brother in 

 the field. The father of John Carrick Moore was James Moore, the 

 second surviving son of Dr. John Moore, who studied medicine in 

 Edinburgh and London, and became one of the most distinguished 

 surgeons of his day. He was the friend of Jenner, and, as a well- 

 known writer in favour of vaccination, was appointed to succeed 

 that surgeon as director of vaccine establishments. 



James Moore, who practised extensively for many years in. 

 London, was the author of many medical treatises and of a 

 biography of his brother, General Sir John Moore, published in 1833. 

 Having had bequeathed to him by a Mr. Carrick, a banker in 

 Glasgow, the estate of Corsewall, in Wigtownshire, near Stanraer 

 and Port Patrick, James Moore added to his own surname that of 

 Carrick. In 1825 James Carrick Moore retired from practice, and, 

 having built himself an excellent house upon his estate on the shores 

 of Loch Ryan, spent the remainder of his life there, dying in 1834 

 at the age of 71. On their mother's side, the Moores were 

 descended from Robert Simson, the celebrated geometrician. 



John Carrick Moore was the second son of James Carrick Moore, 

 and was born in 1804. He went to Cambridge, and was educated 

 at Queen's College, proceeding to the degree of M.A., and devoting 



