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the Investigation of the Fauna and Flora of the Trias of the Briti.sh 

 Isles, he wrote a series of reports on the footprints for which he 

 proposed a provisional scheme of classification. In 1906 he was 

 awarded the proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund by the 

 Geological Society of London for his geological work in this 

 connexion. He was Secretary of the Liverpool Geological Society 

 from 1890 to 1900, and President for the sessions 1887-9, 1904-6,. 

 and again 1908-9, and served as President of the Liverpool 

 Biological Society for 1901-2. His fine collection of footprints 

 was recently purchased by Councillor C. Sydney Jones, M.A., for 

 the Free Public Museum of Liverpool. Mr. Beasley was a most in- 

 defatigable and persistent worker at his favourite geological subjects, 

 such work being his relaxation from an active commercial career. 

 His unselfish character and his readiness at all times to assist any 

 fellow-worker endeared him to all who knew him. 



W. H. 



Francisco Josue Pascasio Moreno. 



Born May, 1852. Died Decembee, 1919. 



We regret to announce the death of our friend Dr. Francisco P. 

 Moreno, founder and for many years director of the La Plata 

 Museum. Born in Buenos Aires 67 years ago, he was half English, 

 his mother having been the daughter of an English botanist. He 

 was a collector of natural history specimens from his earliest youth, 

 and he soon began an important series of explorations of Patagonia 

 and the region of the Andes, which lasted from 1873 until 1884. 

 His first scientific paper was a description of some prehistoric 

 cemeteries in Patagonia, published in the Revue d' Anthropologie 

 in 1874. Three years later he gave his collection to the Argentine 

 Government, who used it for the foundation of the Anthropological 

 and Archaeological MuseTun of Buenos Aires. In 1880 Buenos Aires 

 became the federal capital, and in 1882 the city of La Plata was 

 established to replace it as caj^ital of the j)rovince. In 1884 the 

 provincial governor suggested to Dr. Moreno that he should organize 

 a great new museum in La Plata, taking his anthropological collection 

 as a basis. The special desire of his life was thus fulfilled, and he 

 began to work at once, planning the building and arranging for the 

 acquisition of more collections to illustrate the natural history and 

 antiquities of the Argentine Republic. The excavation of the new 

 docks in the Pampa formation near La Plata especially afforded an 

 ojDportunity for obtaining a fine series of skeletons of the Pleisto- 

 cene Mammalia. By 1889 the Museum was nearly complete, and in 

 the following year Dr. Moreno began to issue its well-known series 

 of valuable publications. In 1893, and again in 1894, Mr. Richard 

 Lydekker visited the Museum officially to prepare an account of 

 the fossil Mammalia from the Pampa and some earlier formations^ 



