From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 18, 1974:

Raymond C. Moore, Kansas University geology professor and one of the century’s most honored geologists, died this week at the age of 82. Moore, who had passed away at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after months of ill health, had recently been touted by Life magazine as “one of the brightest minds in the world.” “He was truly the most dedicated and most widely known geologist in the world,” said Frank Foley, director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey. KU Chancellor Archie Dykes also praised Moore, saying his death “brings to a close one of the most remarkable careers of geological teaching, administration and research this university, or any university, has ever known…. The research work he has written and edited undoubtedly will stand forever as among the most significant contributions to scientific literature in the 20th century.”