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further progress might be arrested pending the final arrangement 
of his affairs. But this source of delay was promptly removed by 
one who appreciated his worth as a neighbour and a friend. Mrs. 
Thwaytes, of Charman Dean near Worthing, as soon as she became 
aware of the circumstance, most liberally supplied Mrs. Dixon with 
the funds required for the completion of the Work. 
The geologist who may find in its pages, or its beautiful and 
accurate plates, a helping guide in the course of his investigations, 
will cheerfully acknowledge his debt of gratitude to this benevolent 
Lady: and her name will ever be honourably associated with those 
of other munificent promoters of the progress of science in this 
country. 
Amongst the manuscripts, with other materials of the Work, en- 
trusted to the Editor by the disconsolate relatives of the Author, was 
the ‘ Preface,’ which is characteristic of Mr. Dixon’s estimable and de- 
vout disposition: it is without date, but appears, by the reference to 
the ‘ Palezontographical Society,’ to have been written in the year 
1848. With the Preface were some detached notes on the principal 
chalk-pits in the neighbourhood of Worthing, and a Sonnet, in 
which Mr. Dixon had commemorated a day, the pleasing recollection 
of which, by those who spent it with him, is saddened by the reflec- 
tion that it was the last of the instructive and delightful excursions 
made with the amiable Author to the scenes which he loved and 
the localities from which he drew such rich stores for the illustration 
of their geological history. 
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