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in his own collection from the coast were remains of Elephant, 

 Ehiiioceros, Hippopotamus, Horse, Bos, Irish Deer, and three other 

 species of Deer.^ Many of these were obtained from the oyster- 

 bank off Hasboro', which he regarded as an extension of the 

 blue clay of the cliff. He also observed that " the antlei's of the 

 deer are broken into fragments of from six to eight inches in length, 

 and three-fourths of them had been shed, indicating that they were 

 at present not far removed from their original locality, and appeared 

 to confirm the tradition that this part of the sea, called ' the 

 Holmes,' was originally a forest." 



In a second communication to Dr. Fitton (23rd March, 1829), he 

 pointed out that " Wherever a section has been made of the Crag 

 of Norwich, with one exception, tliere has been found a layer of 

 nodular flints from twelve to eighteen inches in thickness reposing 

 on the Chalk. Reasoning from analogy he concluded that the 

 Chalk in these instances had been subject to the action of currents 

 of water previous to the deposition of the (Crag) shells ; as the 

 appearance of the flints perfectly agrees with the like phenomena 

 going on at Foulness Point, Cromer, and at Trimmingham Beach, 

 on our coast ; . . . . The Chalk under these flints is perforated as 

 if by PJiolades." These notes, although not published at the time, 

 appeared later on in the " Geology of Norfolk." 



In April, 1829, he sent to Mr. Amyot some "Fragments illus- 

 trating the History of Norwich Castle ; " and in May, some 

 " Observations on the Eound Towers of Norfolk," for the Society 

 of Antiquaries. At the request of Mr. Daniel Gurney, he directed 

 his attention, in 1825, to the collecting and publishing of Merchants' 

 Marks, and later on he exhibited six examples referred to dates between 

 1409 and 1608, which he had drawn on stone ready for publication. 



For some time past his " Synoptical Table of British Organic 

 Remains " had been in preparation, entailing much research and 

 correspondence; it appeared on 1st July, 1830, the list of sub- 

 scribers numbering 155. This work, naturally, has now been out 

 of date long ago, having been superseded in 1843 by the "Catalogue 

 of British Fossils," by Professor Morris, the second edition of which 

 appeared in 1854, now 36 years since. Happily the Vertebrata 

 have been brought up to date by Messrs. Arthur Smith Woodward 

 and C. Davies Sherborn, but the Invertebrata have only been 

 partially listed in separate works, so that much remains to be done 

 in order to complete our Catalogue of British Fossils. 



In 1832, Samuel Woodward visited Mr. Hudson Gurney in 

 London, and went the round of the principal learned Societies with 

 him ; making the personal acquaintance of a number of eminent 

 geologists and antiquaries whom he had previously known by 

 correspondence. He also attended a conversazione at Mr. (afterwards 

 Sir Roderick) Murchison's house, where he met Dr. Buckland and 

 Mr. (afterwards Sir Charles) Lyell, and others. 



The year 1833 saw the publication, on the 1st of May, of his 

 "Outlines of the Geology of Norfolk," one of the first works 

 1 See Rev. J. Layton, Ediub. Journ. of Science, vol. vi. p. 199. 



