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He also wrote : — 



' On Lake-basins,' Phil. Mag. vol. xxix (1865) pp. 526-527. 



' On Glacial Submergence,' Ibid. vol. xxxi (1866) pp. 372-373. 



' Note on Mr. CroU's paper on tbe Influence of tbe Obliquity of the Ecliptic on 



Climate,' Ibid. vol. xxxiii (1867) pp. 536-537. 

 'Change of Obliquity, a Cause of Change of Climate,' Ibid. vol. xxxiii (1867) 



p. 328. 

 'Error in Humboldt's Cosmos,' Nature, vol. v (1872) pp. 479-480. 



John Carrick Moore was elected one of the Secretaries of 

 this Society in 1846, and served until 1852, and again in 1855. 

 He was Vice-President for six years, and was on the Council 

 altogether for no less than 2Q years. He was an intimate friend 

 of Sedgwick, Murchison, and Lyell, and of most of the other leading 

 geologists of their time, and was greatly esteemed and valued by 

 those who were associated with him, either in the active work of 

 the Society or in the field. Sir Charles Lyell, in his ' Principles of 

 Geology' (10th ed., p. 203), refers to Mr. Moore's mathematical 

 and geological work in terms of great admiration, and publishes 

 a Table which had been mainly compiled for him by Mr. Moore, 

 showing ' the variations in the excentricity of the earth's orbit 

 for a million years before a.d. 1800, and some of the climatal effects 

 of such variations.' 



Mr. Moore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856. 

 He died on Pebruary 10th, 1898, at his residence in Eaton Square, 

 having long outlived most of his scientific contemporaries. 



On THE Evidences op the Antiquity op Man euknished by 

 OssiPEROXis Caveens in Glaciated Disteicts in Beitain. 



Introduction. 



As there appears even now to be a doubt in the minds of some 

 as to whether man reached Britain before, during, or after the 

 time known to geologists as the ' Glacial period/ I have thought 

 that it might be well on the present occasion to re-examine some of 

 the evidence which has been brought forward to prove the presence 

 of pre-GL'icial man, especially from those areas in Britain which 

 are now admitted to contain Glacial deposits, or to have been 

 overspread by ice and snow in the Glacial period. 



