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'taturs. Take 'taturs out o' the ground and 

 they stops growin'.' " 



The statue of Sir Thomas Browne is in the 

 form of " a bronze sitting figure, executed by 

 Mr. Henry Pegram, A.R.A." The writer of the 

 above adds that " the Corporation of Norwich 

 has given an almost ideal site for the statue, 

 facing the spot where he lived for very many 

 years, and close upon our great City Church, 

 in the Chancel of which he lies buried." It 

 was very appropriate that Lord Avebury should 

 perform the ceremony of unveiling, both on 

 account of his own eminence in the pursuits 

 which distinguished Sir Thomas Browne, and 

 also by reason of his ancestral association with 

 the county of Norfolk and the possession, still 

 in the family, of the old property of Lamas. 



Professor Davis, of Harvard University, was 

 at High Elms for one of the Sundays of this 

 month, and subsequently wrote to him : 



Royal Societies Club, 



St. James's Street, S.W., 



October 23rrf, 1905. 



Dear Lord Avebury — While the recollection of 

 my brief visit to High Elms is still as vivid as it will 

 always be delightful, let me tell you at once how much 

 I enjoyed it — particularly the charming walk with you 

 and the little conference in the Library on Glacial 

 erosion. This reminds me of another item ; namely 

 the lakes of the Engadine which Heim has explained 

 without any consideration of glacial action. All such 

 explanations of features in the glaciated parts of the 

 Alps must, I think, be revised ; it is quite possible, in 

 the present view of glacial work, that the change in 

 the place of the watershed between the Inn and the 

 Maira, which Heim attributes entirely to normal river 

 work, may be largely due to ice ; and that the little 



