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* On the Moa,' in which he insisted that these birds were con- 

 temporaries of Man, their remains being found charred and broken 

 in the Maori ovens, together with stone implements. He also 

 discussed the cause of the extinction of the Moa, and ascribed it 

 chiefly to the agency of man, a view now generally accepted. 



In a later paper read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 

 1872, he discussed statements that had been made, that Moa-bones 

 had been found beneath marine deposits with extinct shells, and 

 stated that this idea arose from a misapprehension of some informa- 

 tion supplied by him to his father, who employed it in his paper 

 before the Geological Society. 1 He also gave an account of some 

 new localities in which Moa-remains had been found, including 

 Waikonaiti and Te-Rangatapu. In the latter he obtained a large 

 number of fragments of Moa-eggs, several of which he succeeded in 

 restoring. Some of these specimens are now in the Natural 

 History Museum. 2 



Mr. Mantell was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 

 1858. He died on September 7th, 1895, at the age of 75 years. 

 He was in correspondence with Sir William Flower, at the time of 

 his death, as to a further donation of his remaining private collec- 

 tion of Moa-remains to the British Museum, which it is hoped may 

 still be made by his representatives at Wellington, New Zealand. 



Richard Carter, elected a Fellow in 1874, died on September 

 26th, 1895, aged 78, at Springbank, Harrogate, Yorkshire. 



John Ellor Taylor, Ph.D., F.L.S. — As an enthusiastic lover of 

 Nature, and a popular exponent of geological and botanical science, 

 Dr. Taylor did much to arouse in others an interest in natural- 

 history subjects. The son of the foreman of a cotton factory, he 

 was born at Levenshulme, Manchester, September 21st, 1835, and 

 was employed in early years in the railway-works at Crewe. 

 Developing a taste for literature and science, he read largely, 

 cultivated a facile style of writing, and became a contributor to a 

 Manchester paper. His leisure hours were devoted to geology, 



1 See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. iv. (1848) pp. 225-241. [The woodcut 

 which gave rise to the misapprehension is probably that on p. 240.] 



2 See ' Notice of the Remains of Dinornis and other Birds, and of Fossils and 

 Rock-specimens, recently collected by Mr. Walter Mantell in the Middle Island 

 of New Zealand. By G. A. Mantell. With Notes by E. Forbes, and Sketch-map 

 and Notes by Walter Mantell.' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc vol. vi. (1850) p. 319. 



