In November, 1871, he was appointed, under evermemorable circumstances, a paid member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. By the Privy Council Act of that year four paid members-two Indian judges, and two judges of the Superior Courts at Westminsterwere to be appointed. In order to qualify Sir Robert legally for the post he was appointed Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for two days. The transaction was regarded by some persons of legal eminence to be a perversion of the statute, and a bitter and heated controversy ensued; but in the whole course of it no one cast a doubt on Sir Robert Collier's fitness for the office. On all hands it was admitted that he was well qualified for it, and those who were foremost in denouncing Mr. Gladstone's and Lord Hatherley's share in the transaction acknowledged ungrudgingly his talents, his experience, and his success in every public office which he had filled. Nor did he disappoint those who predicted that he would prove an excellent judge-some of his judgments being admirable expositions of legal principles, and all of them expressed with a clearness far from common on the bench. In 1885 Sir Robert was created a Peer under the title of Baron Monks well.

Among his published works are The Railway Clauses, Companies Clauses, and Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, with Notes: together with an Appendix treating of the Formation of a Railway Company, the Mode of Passing a Bill through Parliament, &c., and an Addenda of Statutes and Forms, 1845; A Letter of Reform of the Superior Courts of Common Law to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell; and The Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown, translated 1885. He was an amateur painter of great ability, and many of his pictures have been exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1876 he became a member of this Association, and three years later he was elected to fill the office of President. His introductory address to the meeting at Ilfracombe in 1879 dealt mainly with the progress and development of the art of painting.

He died suddenly at Grasse, near Cannes, on Wednesday, 27th October, 1886, whither he had repaired, on the advice of Sir James Clarke, for the purpose of spending the winter.

X.

WILLIAM FOSTER MOORE was a member of an old Plymouth family prominently connected with commercial pursuits. He could trace his ancestry through several

generations, and almost always one or other of the family occupied public positions of trust, and devoted time and money to the good of the town. In the list of Plymouth mayors the name of Moore is found in remarkable frequency, and even as far back as the year 1533 Mr. Christopher Moore was the chief magistrate of the town.

Mr. Moore was educated by Mr. J. Heyrick Macaulay (a cousin of Lord Macaulay), at the New Grammar School in Princess Square, Plymouth. His father was a large shipbuilder and shipowner, and Mr. Moore's love for the old shipbuilding yard-for ships and all belonging to them— obliged him to turn away from the attractions of a university and professional career, to which his friends endeavoured to attract him. He accordingly served his time with his father, and conducted the business in the extensive yard adjoining his residence, the Friary, on the banks of the ancient harbour of Plymouth, Sutton Pool, until he closed the establishment, the conditions of wooden shipbuilding in the port of Plymouth having changed, and retired from this form of business life. He did not however cease to take a very active interest in local business pursuits. He was one of the largest shareholders, and for many years one of the most energetic directors, of the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company. In the Port of Plymouth Chamber of Commerce he had the liveliest interest, occupied the post of Deputy-Chairman (it being the,custom for the Earls of Morley to fill the chair), and became one of the Members of Council of the Central Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom. His business knowledge and experience were indeed well known and valued far beyond the limits of his native town or the West of England. His sympathies were warmly enlisted by the local institutions, and he gave liberally in aid of various philanthropic objects, and at times a hearty personal assistance. He was Secretary for many years of the Plymouth Royal Eye Infirmary, and at various times filled offices connected with the majority of the Plymouth charities. He was an old and for many years an active member of the Plymouth Institution, and filled the office of President. of that Society. His brother, Dr. E. Moore, who died in the prime of early manhood, was also a very prominent member of the Institution, and did much useful work in connection with local scientific investigation; and Mr. Moore always retained a lively interest in his brother's special pursuits and work.

Like his father and his uncle, Mr. Moore became a member of the Plymouth Town Council, and he threw himself into municipal affairs with a zeal and energy characteristic of all he did. He enjoyed the singular honour of being chosen Mayor of Plymouth three years in succession -from 1874 to 1877-a circumstance without parallel in the history of the borough since the fifteenth century. While he filled the office the British Association paid its second visit to Plymouth, and the reception lacked nothing that he could do to make it worthy alike of the town and of its guests.

An ardent and uncompromising politician, Mr. Moore was for some years the leader of the Conservative party in Plymouth, and spared no effort to secure the triumph of the principles which he held dear. In many respects a man of independent thought, he was most courageous in the expression of his opinions, and most zealous in seeking to give them effect-an antagonist whom all were bound to respect and honour equally for his sincerity and his determination.

Mr. Moore married, in 1882, Marian, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Freeling, of Devonport, and died on the 20th July, 1886, after a prolonged illness, from heart disease, leaving a widow and three children. His remains were deposited in the family vault at Charles Church, and a monument has been erected there to his memory. He is worthily commemorated also in the fine window in the Plymouth Guildhall, illustrating the famous Armada game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe, which he gave to the town, and which was the first of the noble reproductions of local historic scenes which now adorn that building.

Mr. Moore was a foundation member of this Association, and filled the office of Vice-President at the Newton Abbot meeting in 1884. He never read any papers before the Association, but took much interest in its proceedings and prosperity.

XI.

JAMES SIVEWRIGHT joined the Association, in 1869, as a Life Member. On the 11th November of the previous year he became a member of the Torquay Natural History Society, and was elected a Vice-President of that body on the 31st May, 1871. He resided at the Grove, Torquay, where he died 18th October, 1886, aged 60 years.

TWELFTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON

SCIENTIFIC MEMORANDA.

TWELFTH REPORT of the Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis Brent, Mr. T. R. A. Briggs, Mr. H. S. Gill, the Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. E. Parfitt, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe (Secretary), and Mr. R. N. Worth, for the purpose of noting the discovery or occurrence of such facts, in any department of scientific enquiry, and connected with Devonshire, as it may be desirable to place upon permanent record, but which may not be of sufficient importance in themselves to form the subjects of separate papers.

Edited by J. BROOKING ROWE, F.S.A., F.L.S., Hon. Secretary.

(Read at Plympton, July, 1887.)

Ar the last meeting of the Association three gentlemen— Mr. Francis Brent, F.S.A., Mr. T. R. A. Briggs, F.L.S., and Mr. R. N. Worth, F.G.S.-were added to this Committee. The Committee present communications received, which relate to matters Ornithological, Meteorological, Geological, Archæological, and Numismatical. All contain information of considerable value, worthy of preservation in the pages of our Transactions.

(Signed)

R. N. WORTH, Chairman.
J. BROOKING ROWE, Hon. Sec.

I. ORNITHOLOGICAL.

"Relative numbers of the Marsh Titmouse (Parus palustris, L.) and the Coal Titmouse (P. ater, L.) in Devonshire.-A statement by Colonel Montagu respecting the relative numbers of these two species of Titmouse in England is commented on in the following way in Newton and Saunders' edition of Yarrell's British Birds, yet I think, so far as Devonshire is concerned, Colonel Montagu's words will

probably still be found quite correct. We read: 'The Coal Titmouse seems to be more common in England now than formerly. Both Montagu and Selby agree in saying that according to their experience it was less numerous than the Marsh Titmouse, whereas the contrary is certainly the case at the present day.' (Vol. i. p. 491.)

"Colonel Montagu's statement as to its being more plentiful than the Coal Tit' is perfectly correct still for the nesting season, as far as the locality, Egg Buckland, where I write this, is concerned. I have known only one or two instances of the nesting of the Coal Tit, whereas the Marsh Tit nests every year in hollows in apple-trees in our orchards, generally laying six eggs in April or May. Macgillivray speaks of both it and the Coal Tit being late in breeding, but so far as the Marsh Tit is concerned this is not the case in Devon. Montagu says the nest is 'composed of moss and thistledown, sometimes a little wool, and lined with the down of the thistle.' Thistledown, however, cannot enter into the composition of nests built so early as I have stated, though that of willows and of the coltsfoot might; and I believe rabbits' fur to be the material that is usually employed for the inner portion of the nest. This season a pair of these birds built a nest in a hole, probably partially, if not wholly, hollowed out by themselves in the centre of the stump of a tree standing up about six inches only above the level of the surrounding ground, the cavity containing the nest going down into it about as far again. The hole at the entrance is very small, but six eggs could be seen by peeping down through it. Last winter and spring a Marsh Titmouse made frequent visits to the yard here to carry off and peck out, on the branches of neighbouring trees, grains of maize thrown out for our ducks. (T. R. ARCHER BRIGGS.)"

"Nest of the Redbreast (Erythaca rubecula, L.) in a hayrick. In the spring of this year a pair of these birds built a nest in a rather unusual situation-a somewhat deep hollow in the side of a hayrick-and in it five young ones were hatched. Such a situation is one frequently chosen by Wrens for building in, but I do not remember to have previously seen it selected by Redbreasts. (T. R. ARCHER BRIGGS.)"

"Distribution of the Redstart (Phanicura ruticilla, Sco.) in Devonshire.-A male bird of this species was seen by my brother in an orchard here so early as April 9th. The