190 Obituary — Captain Lewis Moysey. 



He liad devoted, over a period of many years, the scanty leisure of 

 a busy professional life to the collection of the fossil remains of the 

 Coal-measures around his home at Nottingham. He was an 

 exceptionally ardent palaeontologist, with a keen eye for a good 

 specimen, and he was possessed of great skill and perseverance as 

 a collector. 



He rediscovered a half-forgotten method of developing fossils 

 contained in clay-ironstone nodules, by freezing them in cold 

 storage. This he described in a paper in the Geological Magaziis^e 

 for 1908. 



He also contributed several memoirs on some of the rarer specimens 

 in his collection. Among these may be mentioned his writings on 

 Palceoxyris and allied genera, published by the Geological Society in 

 1910 and the British Association in 1913 (1914), which did much to 

 clear up the obscurities which then surrounded these fossils. Eut, 

 as a rule, he was content, with great generosity, to place the 

 results of his labours in the field in the hands of specialists for 

 description. 



His collection covered a wide range both of Coal-measure animals 

 and plants, not a few being unique or exceptionally perfect examples. 

 Some of the former have been described in the pages of the 

 Geological Magazine, by Dr. Henry Woodward in 1907 and 1908 

 and Dr. W. T. Caiman in 1914, and in the publications of the 

 Palseontographical Society by Mr. R. I. Pocock in 1911. 



Dr. Arber some years ago (1910) also figured some of the best of 

 the plant remains in his collection, but many further examples 

 which Dr. Moysey had since acquired remain undescribed. It is not 

 too much to say that our exceptionally good knowledge of the fauna 

 and flora of the Notts and Derby Coalfield is due almost entirely to 

 his single-handed efforts, as his list of records contained in the recent 

 Survey memoir dealing with this field testifies. 



A few weeks before his death, as if conscious of his impending 

 fate, Dr. Moysey made over as gifts his entire collections, the animal 

 remains to the Museum of Practical Geology in London and the 

 plant specimens to the University of Cambridge. The latter are 

 now in the Sedgwick Museum. 



Dr. Moysey possessed many friends among those interested in Coal- 

 measure fossils, and his delightful personality, generous nature, and 

 enthusiasm for research had endeared him to all of them. 



[Note by the Editoe. — Of the Arthropods discovered by Dr. L. 

 Moysey the first specimens were sfl^pt in May, 1907, to his friend 

 Mr. Henry A, Allen, P.G.S., of the Geological Survey, Jermj-n 

 Street, and described by Dr. Henry Woodward in the Geologicai. 

 Magazine for June, 1907^ (pp. 277-82, Plate XIII). They consisted 

 of examples of Euryfterus [E. Moyseyi and E. Derhiensis) from the 

 clay-ironstone nodules of the Coal-measures, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. 



As the result of his experiments in splitting by a freezing and 

 thawing process the ironstone nodules obtained on the Shipley Hall 

 Estate clay-pit, near Ilkeston, Dr. Moysey records the fortunate 

 discovery of a greater proportion of rare fossils in these harder 



