Moore 

 Collection. 



Bath in its relation to Science. ii^ 



Valuable as other departments are, the rela- 

 tion of Bath to Science is undoubtedly most 

 prominent in Geology. The discoveries of 

 Mr. Charles Moore, and the Museum gradually formed by 

 him, became matters of more than local interest. What he 

 did was well described in a paper soon after his death by 

 the Rev. H. H. Winwood, himself an accomplished Geo- 

 logist, and now the indefatigable honorary curator of the 

 collection. "Day by day," he says, "as I have been en- 

 gaged in arranging it, my admiration has been excited by 

 the traces of minute, single-handed, masterful work already 

 done, and by the great accumulation of material still to be 

 worked out." Mr. Winwood tells the story of Moore, as a 

 school-boy at Ilminster, finding some nodules, amusing 

 himself by rolling them down a hill, seeing a collision in 

 the descent, and finding as the result a fish inside a stone. 

 The boyish mind asked how it came there, pondered over 

 it till he understood it, was led to study other stones until 

 he became a geologist, and spent all his spare time while in 

 business and through thirty years afterwards in doing more 

 to illustrate the geology of Somerset than any one person 

 before him had done. Mr. Winwood, after describing the 

 various smaller classes, beautifully arranged in cases, pro- 

 ceeds to the chief feature of the collection, the unique 

 assemblage of Upper Lias forms, discoveries in the Tri- 

 assic and Rhcetic beds, which fix the attention of all 

 visitors to the Museum. " Passing onwards and upwards 

 in the scale of life we come (he says) to those great marine 

 reptilian monsters, the sea lizards of the Liassic times. 

 Too large, most of them to be caged, they sprawl their 

 huge limbs along our walls. There you can see them in 

 the attitude in which death overtook them: "Plesiosauri 



