140 Correspondence—Mr. Mellard Reade.—Obituary— Tawney. 
stone” is either the Dolomite repeated by faulting or a part of the 
Eastern Gneiss. 
4, The “igneous rock” of authors (“ Logan Rock” of Professor 
Heddle) is usually the Hebridean Gneiss brought over the Quartzo- 
dolomitic group by enormous overthrows. 
I hope to submit to the Geological Society, in the course of the 
spring, detailed and, I think, very decisive proof of the results at 
which I have arrived. C. CALLAWAY. 
WELLINGTON, SALOP. 
THE HIGHEST POINT IN NORFOLK. 
Szr,— What is the locality and the height of the highest point in 
Norfolk? Quoting Mr. Penning! in my paper “On the Chalk 
Masses in the Cromer Drift,” ? I, incautiously perhaps, stated its height 
at 650 feet, the locality being in the chalk escarpment of West 
Norfolk. Mr. Searles Wood says he does not think the ‘‘ Cromer 
lighthouse hill (248 feet) is exceeded by any point in Norfolk to the 
extent of more than a few feet.”? Mr. Whitaker, in his late clever 
presidential address to the Norwich Geological Society, says after 
some very complimentary allusions to my paper, ‘‘ I may notice the 
repetition therein of a strange error, the endowment of the Norfolk 
Chalk with a highest point of 650 feet.” * 
With a view of settling these discordant opinions, for it is to be 
borne in mind the “endowment” was not the result of my “ muni- 
ficence,” being simply a quotation from the work of one of Mr. 
Whitaker’s fellow-labourers, I applied to the Director-General of the 
Ordnance Survey, who kindly informs me they “are unable to give 
certain information as to the highest point in Norfolk,” but states 
that the highest point levelled to is 6725 links North-east of 
Aylmerton Church, and 331-4 feet above O. D. The “point,” there- 
fore, remains still an unsettled and knotty one.° 
This is a question of fact on which it is desirable to be correctly 
informed, but for aught it has to do with my theory of the transport 
of the Chalk Boulders, might have been omitted. The lesser 
heights are all that are required for my ice rafts. which could not 
have “stranded on a submarine bank” if launched into 600 feet of 
water. T. Mezriarp Reape. 
Qa WA PAS see N12 
E. B. TAWNEY, M.A., F.G.S. 
Diep DrcEMBeER 30, 1882; AcEp 42. 
E have recently lost by the death of Edward Bernard Tawney 
one of our very best all-round geologists. From physical 
weakness and a retiring disposition he did not throw himself much 
to the front, and so few knew what work was being done by that 
OQ .0. GS. xxx 191, 2 [hid. xxxviil. 233, 3 [bid. xxxviil. 684. 
4 Proc. of the Norwich Geol. Soc. 1882, p. 209. 
? The English Encyclopedia (1855), article N orfolk, says, ‘‘ The highest ground i in 
the county is probably on the North-west side, where the chalk downs appear.’ 
