4 Life of a Geologist of a Century Ago — 



by the Eomans ; another pictured the great estuary which it was 

 considered had spread itself as far as Yenta Icenorum (Norwich) 

 "before the sands on which Yarmouth was built were left uncovered 

 hy the sea. This latter map was based upon the ancient ' Hutch 

 Map,' belonging to the Corporation of Yarmouth, with, however, 

 many inaccuracies as to places and distances corrected. 



In 1825 he had already nearly completed two works in MS., one 

 entitled " Sketch of the Norwich Crag Deposit, with a Descriptive 

 Catalogue of its Fossils," a quarto volume containing twenty plates 

 with outline figures of the species ; the other, entitled, " Kemarks 

 on the Geology of the County of Norfolk," 4to. illustrated with 

 coloured figures of the fossils and coloured sections of the strata. 

 Both works, however, were commenced and carried out on a plan 

 far too ambitious and expensive for publication. The projected 

 " Geology of Norfolk " was to comprise 24 plates, and nearly 1000 

 figures ; he had already drawn about 300, and others were sub- 

 sequently added ; these remain as he left them. The substance of 

 his observations, and figures of many of the species were, however, 

 published in his " Geology of Norfolk," in 1833. The original 

 drawings of fossils are extremely accurate and very carefully executed 

 and bespeak considerable native talent. In 1826 he was elected a 

 member of the Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum 

 (established in 1824), an office which he held at intervals during the 

 subsequent years of his life. In 1827 he exhibited before the 

 Society of Antiquaries, in London, some antiquities found at 

 Coltishall, which he conjectured to have been a landing-place to the 

 Eomans when navigating the Eiver Bure on their way to Bampton 

 or Burgh-by-Aylsham. Later in the year he was engaged with Mr. 

 "W. C. Ewing, in exploring the Barrows at Eaton Heath. The 

 Bronze Celts and a perfect metal mould obtained there, were ex- 

 hibited at the Society of Antiquaries, Dec. 6, 1827 (see Archeeologia, 

 YoL xxii. p. 424, 1829). On the 5th Feb. 1828, he was elected 

 an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, at 

 the suggestion of John Phillips, then Curator of the York Museum, 

 with whom he frequently corresponded. 



In 1828, in a letter to Dr. Fitton, F.E.S., President of the 

 Geological Society of London (read 2nd January, 1829), he records 

 the occurrence of Crag at Cromer, and westward at Coltishall, and 

 around Norwich. To the eastward, instead of marine shells, he 

 noticed that there occurred a layer of ligneous and mammalian 

 remains reposing on the Chalk. In this, immense numbei's of bones 

 and teeth of the Elephant, Horse, Deer, etc., mingled with trunks, 

 branches, and leaves of trees, had been found, extending even to the 

 distance of twenty miles out to sea, and on the Knoll sands, etc. 

 (Proc. Geol. Soc. 1829, vol. i. p. 93). In 1829, he communicated a 

 short sketch of the geology of the county to the " Norfolk Tour," 

 in which he states that in what was subsequently termed the 

 "Forest Bed" there are found a surprising number of vegetable 

 and animal remains, as trunks, branches, leaves, and stumps of trees 

 (m situ), etc. He had two years previously (1827) recorded that 



