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much attention to mathematics and physics. Before the year 1838, 

 his attention seems to have been attracted by the rocks of the 

 Rhinns of Wigtownshire, near his residence, for we find that he was 

 in communication with Charles Lyell, who identified the fossils found 

 by him as graptolites. In the year named, he was elected a fellow 

 of the Geological Society. 



In 1839 he traced out carefully the succession of strata along 

 the west shore of Loch Ryan, and in the following year a paper on 

 the subject was read by him to the Geological Society. In 1841, 

 Sedgwick, crossing from Ireland, paid a visit to Corsewall, and was 

 accompanied by John Carrick Moore in a tour through Ayrshire. 

 In September 1843, Lyell and his wife paid a visit to the same 

 hospitable dwelling, examining and confirming the accuracy of 

 Moore's sections. Much of Ly ell's time seems to have been spent 

 m studying the rain- and hail-prints, with the f ucoid- and crustacean- 

 markings on the shores of Loch Ryan, and he subsequently wrote to 

 Moore : " The Loch is a grand magazine of geological analogies 

 tidal, littoral, conchological, sedimentary, &c. } which I envy you 

 having at your door." Subsequently to this visit, Lyell, under the 

 direction of Moore, visited the remarkable rocks in the neighbour- 

 hood of Ballantrae and bore testimony to the accuracy of his friend's 

 work there. 



In 1846 we find John Carrick Moore had become so identified 

 with the work of the Geological Society, that he was elected Secre- 

 tary, and in the same year he became a member of the Geological 

 Society Club. He held the omce of Secretary for six years (1846-52), 

 when he was elected a Vice-President of the Society (1853-4), 

 resuming his post of Secretary in 1855 for one year. So active 

 indeed was Carrick Moore in the administration of the Geological 

 Society's affairs, that between 1846 and 1875 we find him absent from 

 the Council only in four years ; he was a Vice-President in 1862, 

 and again in 1864-5. In 1848 he read a more extended paper to the 

 Geological Society on the Silurian rocks of the Wigtownshire coast, 

 the fossils being described and figured by Salter. In 1856 and 1858 

 Moore communicated accounts of further observations on Wigtown- 

 shire geology to the Geological Society, while his general interest in 

 geological research was shown by the papers written by him in 

 1850 and in 1863, on fossils collected and sent home from San Domingo 

 by Mr. Heniker, and from Jamaica by Lucas Barrett. In 1849 wo 

 find him describing the Oligocene fossils found in the New 

 Forest. 



John Carrick Moore was proposed as a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society in November, 1855, his nomination paper being signed first 

 by his friend Charles Lyell, while others who subscribed from 

 personal knowledge were Sedgwick, Murchison, Hopkins, Leonard 



