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Corner, and Faraday. He does not appear, however, to have ever 

 contributed a paper to the Society. By his patient labours in 

 studying the geology of Galloway he made valuable additions to 

 our knowledge of the stratified rocks of Britain, and he took a 

 distinguished place among the band of amateur workers including 

 many landed proprietors, clergymen, soldiers, and doctors to 

 whose painstaking and detailed work in the field English geology 

 owes so much. Among these men, John Carrick Moore was 

 always held in the highest esteem, and his time and energy were 

 ungrudgingly devoted alike to the advancement of his favourite 

 science by careful studies in the field, and to the promotion of the 

 interests of the Society identified with that science, during the parts 

 of the year when he resided in London. 



In 1864, Andrew Ramsay spent a few days with John Carrick 

 Moore at Corsewall, mapping the peninsula, which terminates in 

 Corsewall Point, for the Geological Survey of Scotland. Of John 

 Carrick Moore's wide sympathies with all matters connected with 

 geology, and of the knowledge and ability with which, owing to his 

 early training at Cambridge, he was able to deal with those ques- 

 tions of physical geology demanding an acquaintance with mathe- 

 matical methods, we have abundant evidence. Between 1865 and 1867, 

 he sent a series of letters to the 'Philosophical Magazine,' dealing 

 in a very able and critical manner with Ramsay's theory of the 

 origin of lake-basins, and with Croll's theory of the cause of the 

 glacial period. These letters show that Moore had not forgotten bis 

 early training and had kept himself abreast of the science of the day 

 by his studies of physical questions ; and the substantial justice of his 

 criticisms has been abundantly shown by later researches. In 1875 

 he wrote to ' Nature,' pointing out a curious oversight of Humboldt 

 in his * Cosmos.' 



In 1875, John Carrick Moore finally withdrew from the Council 

 of the Geological Society, upon which he had served so long and so 

 faithfully; and from that time forward he would seem to have ceased 

 to take any active part in scientific work. Few of the present genera- 

 tion of geologists can even recollect having seen the stately and 

 courteous gentleman, who was at one time so indefatigable in the 

 service of their society, and who had so frequently acted as one of 

 its officials. For nearly a quarter of a century after this withdrawal 

 from public activity, however, John Carrick Moore lived on, spending 

 his time between his seat in Wigtownshire and the house in Eaton 

 Square, where he died on February 10, 1898, at the great age of 

 94. His only son had pre-deceased him, but a daughter survives, the 

 estate passing to his nephew Colonel Sir David Carrick Buchanan, 

 of Drumpellier. Besides the Corsewall estate, John Carrick Moore 

 owned property in Kirkcudbrightshire and in England, and he was 



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