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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 senf home from San Domingo 

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

 find him describing the Oligocene fossils found in the New Forest. 



John Cari'ick Moore was proposed as a Fellow of the Eoyal 

 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 

 Horner, 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 Eamsay 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 questions 

 of physical geology demanding an acquaintance with mathematical 

 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 his 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 



