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

 ceased to take any active part in scientific work. Few of the 

 present generation 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 Mooi-e 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 

 predeceased 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 a Deputy-Lieutenant 

 of the county of Wigtownshire. He was not less highly respected 

 among the gentry of his county and the tenants of his estate than in 

 the circles of scientific society in London, in which his presence was 

 so long conspicuous, J- W. J.^ 



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The Hereford Earthquake op December 17th, 1896. — A report 

 on this important earthquake by Dr. Charles Davison, F.G.S., will 

 be published in the autumn, if a sufficient number of subscriptions 

 be obtained to defray the cost of printing. The work is founded on 

 nearl}'^ 3,000 observations made at places distributed over an area of 

 about 100,000 square miles. This area exceeds that disturbed by any 

 other known British earthquake, and includes every county in 

 England but three, the whole of Wales, the Isle of Man, and the 

 eastern counties of Ireland. Copies of the prospectus may be 

 obtained from Messrs. Cornish Bros., 37, New Street, Birmingham. 



Ossiferous Caves in the Basque Country (Bayonne). — 

 Mr. George Greenwood, Broadhanger, Petersfield, Hants, lately 

 visited the ossiferous caves at Isturitz, Hasparren, in the Basque 

 country (Bayonne), and brought away specimens of the teeth of 

 the Great Cave Bear JJrsus spelceus, Horse, and Ibex. The deposits 

 are so rich in mammalian remains that the proprietor is working 

 them for the purpose of selling the deposit for manufacturing bone- 

 manure for the farmers. It is to be regretted that no effort is being 

 made to save the splendid specimens of the Cave Bear and other 

 animals, as well as remains of primitive man, which these caverns 

 afford. Could not a committee of the British Association under 

 Section C take the matter up, and obtain a grant to work these 

 interesting caves ? Monsieur Koth, of Bayonne, is the only 

 gentleman in the neighbourhood w^ith scientific tastes who might be 

 induced to help in such a good work. — Old Bones. 



^ Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. Ixiii. 



