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(Reservoirs, Tunnel, and Military Works) ; and from 1859 to 1861, 

 Commanding Engineer and Governor of Perim Island, at the 

 entrance to the Red Sea. On this island he superintended the 

 construction of the tanks and defensible lighthouse. IVice he 

 received the thanks of the Government; but in 1861 he was 

 invalided to England. In 1862 and the following year he was 

 Commanding Engineer at Alderney ; and in 1863 and 1864 at the 

 Eoyal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on the Military Pontoon 

 Commission (Austrian detachment). The next two years were spent 

 in Ireland, at Templemore, where he received the thanks of Sir Hugh 

 Hose — who had become Commander of the Forces in Ireland — for 

 reconnaissance and proposed military defences of the district. The 

 year 1866 saw Moore's retirement from the Army on half -pay, being 

 invalided. This, however, did not terminate an even then active 

 career, indeed it did not half fulfil it, for having spent a few years 

 in studying at Sydenham and Queen's College, Kirmingham, he 

 became resident on the Staff of the Genei'al Hospital — a position he 

 held until 1870, in which year he was appointed Assistant House 

 Physician and Assistant House Surgeon. In that year he moved 

 to Hereford, having been appointed House Surgeon at the General 

 Hospital. From 1893 to 1900 he was Honorary Surgeon of the 

 Hereford Dispensary; from 1898 to 1900 Medical Officer of Health 

 for the City and five Rural Districts ; and was still Medical Officer 

 of Health for Hereford at the time of his death. 



Moore was Honorary Secretary of the Free Library and Museum 

 from 1886 onwards, and Honorary Secretary of the Woolhope 

 Naturalists' Field Club from the same year until 1908, with the 

 exception of the years 1896, 1897, and the present one, when he 

 was President of the Club. The editing of the Transactions of this 

 well-known Club is a no mean task, and the fact that Moore per- 

 formed this duty from 1877 until his death is sufficient evidence, to 

 those who know, of his untiring zeal. In the field he was a stimu- 

 lating leader, always ready to teach and be taught, and in him the 

 Woolhope Club and a larger circle has lost a true friend and a genial 

 companion, which it will be impossible to replace. 



L. Richardson. 



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London TJniveksity : The I^ew Peincipal. — At a meeting of the 

 Senate of London University on July 22nd Professor Henry Alexander 

 Miers, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and 

 "Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy in that University, was appointed 

 to be Principal as from October 1st next on the resignation of Sir 

 Arthur Riicker, D.Sc, F.R.S. In addition to his professorship, 

 Dr. Miers holds various administrative offices in the University of 

 Oxford, being a member of the Hebdomadal Council, a Delegate of 

 the Clarendon Press, a Delegate for the Inspection and Examination 

 of Schools, and Secretary to the Delegates of the Museum. — Morning 

 Pod, July 23rd, 1908. 



