94 Obituary — Charles Moore. 



circulation only), Sir Antonio Brady pays a just tribute of respect to 

 the genius and ability of bis first instructor in the art of preserving 

 fossil bones, and acknowledges that be was indebted to Mr. William 

 Davies, F.G.S., of the British Museum, for the preservation of most 

 of the larger specimens in his collection. 



Some idea may be formed of the enormous riches of this deposit 

 when we find that an amateur, in his leisure hours, was able to 

 amass nearly one thousand specimens of Mammalia from a single 

 locality, comprising : Felis spelaa, Canis vulpes, Ursus, sp., Elephas 

 primigenius, E. antiquus, Bhinoceros leptorhinus, B. megarhinus, B. 

 tichorhinus, Eqims fossilis, Megaceros Hibernicus, Gervns elaphus, C. 

 sp., Bison prisons, Bos primigenius, Hippopotamus, sp. To this in- 

 teresting series of fossil remains of the old fauna of the Thames 

 Valley, we may add that the subsequent researches of Prof. Boyd 

 Dawkins, F.R.S., and R. W. Cheadle, Esq. F.G.S., have added the 

 " Musk-Ox," Ovibos moschatus, and the labours of F. C. J. Spurrell, 

 Esq., F.G.S., the "Lemming." We have thus presented to us 

 in this area the conjunction of Northern and Southern forms of 

 land-animals as marvellous as that which modern London exhibits 

 to-day, in its assemblage of specimens of the genus Homo, from 

 every clime. For with the Hijypopotamus, the Bhinoceros, and the 

 Lion from the south, we have also in abundance the Cyrena fluminalis, 

 a shell now characteristic of the Valley of the Nile and the rivers of 

 India and China : whilst from the north, the " Musk-Ox," the Rein- 

 deer, the Elk,^ and the Lemming advance to meet them. 



To Sir Antonio Brady, then, we are indebted for a most valuable 

 collection of Pleistocene Mammalia, now happily preserved in the 

 British Museum of Natural History, Cromwell Road. Nor must we 

 omit to mention that he strove by his presence, as a resident at 

 Stratford, and by his constant acts of kindness and hospitality to the 

 workmen, and by the largesse which he freely gave, to rescue from 

 destruction these interesting relics of a pre-historic age, which 

 now help to swell the magnificent series of our National Museum. — 

 H. W.—{" Nature," Dec. 22, 1881.) 



CHARLES MOORE, F.G.S. 



EoRN AT Ilminstek, 1814 ; Died at Bath, Dec. 1881. 

 Theee are some men who are induced by example and the 

 influence of others to become geologists ; there are a few men who 

 are to the manner born. Charles Moore was one of those self- 

 taught naturalists, who, if not born a "hammerer," took to it from 

 boyhood. In the quarries of the Upper White Lias, near Tlminster, 

 at which place Charles Moore was born, there are found large 

 numbers of oblong oval nodules which, with the ready assimilation 

 characteristic of boyhood, were found excellent for bowling along 

 the road. He was, as a schoolboy, one day amusing himself thus 

 with two nodules in the road, when, in striking together violently, 

 one of the nodules split open and, to his surprise, revealed a fossil 

 fish inside. His curiosity was instantly aroused as to how such an 



1 There is evidence of the true Elk {Alces palmatics) from the somewhat later 

 deposits of Waltham.stow, Essex. (See Geol. Mag. 1869, pp. 385-388.) 



