382 Obituary— John Carrick Moore, F.R.8., F.G.8. 



had very distinguished careers. The eldest surviving son was 

 General Sir John Moore, the hero of Corunna, and a j'ounger son 

 was Admiral Sir Graham Moore, whose exploits on the sea were 

 scarcely 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 aa 

 director of vaccine establishments. 



James Moore, who practised extensively for many years in 

 London, was the author of various 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 

 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 shoi'e 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 Lyell's time seems to have been spent in 

 studying the rain- and hail-prints, with the fucoid- 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, etc., which I envy you 

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

 direction of Moore, visited the remarkable rocks in the neighbourhood 

 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 Secretary, 

 and in the same year he became a member of the Geological Society 

 Club, fie held the office of Secretary for six years (1846-52), when 



