These two people have sometimes been confused. I hope that the following will be of help.
Major Edward Charles Moor, JP, of Great Bealings, was born 29 October 1848. His chief hobby was ornithology, but he also collected Crag fossils. Professor E. T. Newton commemorated him by naming a seal, Phoca moori, after him (On some new Mammals from the Red and Norwich Crags, Quart. Journ. Geol.Soc. vol. xlvi, p. 444 : 1890). He was a Governor of Woodbridge School. He died 26 October 1934, and his collection was donated to Ipswich Museum in 1935. He was the grandson of Major Edward Moor (1771 - 1848), author of Suffolk Words and Phrases (1823) and the Hindu Pantheon.
Major Edward St Francis Moore (note different spelling of surname from Major Moor above) of Woodbridge was born in that town in 1853. He lived at the Gate House, and then at no. 6 Cumberland Street, and died 27 September 1940, aged 87. His collecton was donated to Ipswich Museum in 1939. It includes a rostrum of a whale named after him by A. Bell (Choneziphius moorei - a new species of fossil Ziphoid whale from Walton-on-Naze, Essex, Essex Naturalist, vol.XVII,pp. 105-106 : 1913) and a specimen of the shell Nucella lapillus from the Red Crag of Harwich, the last of which was eroded many years ago.
I was delighted to learn that Peter Underwood was awarded the MBE this year (1998) for his work in connection with the Ipswich Society and with conservation in Suffolk. It should also be noted that he is a keen supporter of local geology and was a member of the former Ipswich Geological Group. The editor of White Admiral and I both remember him as one of our geography teachers at Northgate Grammar School for Boys in Ipswich! There is a photograph of Peter on the front cover of the Ipswich Society Newsletter 133, October 1998.
This CD-Rom contains a combination of aerial (Aerofilms) and ground-based photographs. The physical geography photographs include a number with local geological interest, including Sheringham, Sidestrand and Orfordness. The CD-ROM is written by Caroline Markham and Dr Rosemary Hoppitt and published by Anglia Multimedia. It is suitable for National Curriculum Key Stages 3-4 and A level, and runs on PC, Acorn or Apple machines. It may be obtained from SCA (Anglia Multimedia), PO Box 18, Benfleet, Essex SS7 1AZ. Phone or Fax 01268 755811 for further details.
Suffolk is hardly the county to associate with graptolites, those characteristic fossils of Lower Palaeozoic times. However, two items may be of interest -
Under the title Ecclesiastical Fossil, David Brown (Essex Field Club Bulletin no. 14, page 22; Spring 1976) recorded a graptolite in a commemorative stone set in the floor inside Stratford St Mary Church.
A major study, Graptolites : Writing on the Rocks, by Douglas Palmer and Barry Rickards, was published in 1991 in the Fossils Illustrated series by Boydell Press of Woodbridge.
From Leaflets and Booklets
I offer the following, without comment -
Solving Ipswich's water supply problem was an Anglian Water Authority leaflet produced by the Information Unit on behalf of the Stour Water Division in the late nineteen-seventies. One cross-section, of the route of the Sproughton-Alton pipeline, showed 'Red Crag' on 'Boulder clay' on 'Green chalk'.
A Companion to a Cruise of Harwich Harbour and the Rivers Orwell and Stour, was printed by the Harwich Printing Company, Dovercourt, in the early 1970's. See pages 2 and 3 for 'During the last century, a citizen of Levington discovered some rich cupreous deposits which he used to dig out..... for use as a fertiliser......transport the stuff to the docks at Ipswich......hence the road named Cuprinol Street in the dock area. His name was Mr Fison.....'
From a leaflet obtained at All Saints' Church, Waldringfield: 'Coprolite was fossilised dinosaur's dung from which nitrate was extracted for artificial manure.'
A leaflet The tale of two Terrors from Patmore Softeners of Martlesam Heath, included a section showing underground water and a spring at the junction of Limestone resting on Gravels.
In Christchuch Park, Ipswich, bird reserve, from the Recreation and Amenities Department, Ipswich Borough Council, c 1988-9 : 'The Wilderness Pond....is a large natural stretch of water.'
Arctic. Home Improvers to the East Anglian People, published about 1982, advertised : 'New Ice-Age Threat to East Anglia!....There is no assault of Ice Age wiles that Arctic cannot meet and beat.'
From the Handbook and Guide to the Parishes of Butley, Chillesford and Wantisden, edited by Arthur Snell (about 1950), G Pickthall wrote of Chillesford church (page 18): - 'The tower is.....largely constructed of the rare Suffolk coralline crag, the oldest geological deposit in England.....It was all obtained from a large pit just below the church.'
The National Trust's East Anglia Touring Guide, 1980, mentioned Dunwich Heath: 'the cliffs illustrate the erosive effect of weather and sea and the National Trust's work to prevent it.'
Discover Norwich - Sheringham by Rail was a 1988 British Rail leaflet, in which you could also discover that 'Fossil Flints can conceal the remains of leaves, fish or animal tracks over 10,000 years old.'
In a Norfolk Holiday Guide - The Beaches in North Norfolk (obtained from a Tourist Information Centre) : 'Fossilized Sea Urchins (Echinoids) can be found in the flints on the beach. Some Echinoids are known to be between 425-500 million years old.'
Bob Markham
Geology Field Meetings will commence again next Spring.