430 Correspondence—Mr. S. V. Wood. 
THE MASSES IN THE CROMER DRIFT. 
Str,—Sir Charles Lyell was misinformed as to his pinnacle at 
Sherringham having disappeared in 1864, for my first visit to the 
Cromer coast was in August of that year, and I saw it and drew it 
in my note book. I also well recollect it. 
The woodcut of it first appeared in a paper by Sir Charles in the 
Phil. Mag for May, 1840 (p. 867), where he says that chalk flints 
are scattered somewhat irregularly through it. This is not the 
character of the chalk itself, but is exactly that of the reconstructed 
chalk (moraine), which forms hills flanking the Lincolnshire Wold. 
Although this part of his description was omitted by Sir Charles in 
subsequent publications, his cut in all of them shows the pinnacle 
as having from base to summit on the left side, and part of the way 
up from the base on the right side, numerous angular stones—pre- 
sumably these scattered flints—-distributed through it. 
IT must leave Mr. T. M. Reade’s other objections to be answered 
by the general case shown in the Memoir on the Newer Pliocene 
Period, which from my having pointed out therein the great error 
into which he had fallen as to the elevations in Norfolk, and the 
consequent failure of such inferences as he drew from it, gave rise 
to this correspondence. - SearLes V. Wooo, 
14th August, 1883. 
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GS TA PASE ae 
WILLIAM MOLYNEUX, F.GS., 
“Born May 22nd, 1824; Diep OcroBrr 24th, 1882. 
Witt1am Motynevx, the subject of our present Memoir, was born 
at Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, a village on the banks of the 
Isis, where he received his first instruction. At an early age he was 
taken into the establishment of His Grace the Archbishop of York, 
where his education was advanced by Miss Harcourt, a sister of the 
Archbishop. He developed a taste for poetry and in 1853 published 
a volume of poems and some other works of a similar nature. In 
1855 Mr. Thomas Jackson (private secretary to the late Duchess) 
obtained him employment under the late Duke of Sutherland, at ~ 
Trentham, Staffordshire, where he resided six years. He wrote a 
Guide to “Trentham and its Gardens” in 1857, and commenced 
with Mr. Garner, F.L.S., his geological studies, and with that 
gentleman and Dr. Barnard Davis, F.R.S., he assisted in the explora- 
tion of several Romano-British Barrows. 
A paper was read before the North Staffordshire Field Club, in 
1866, by Mr. Molyneux, ‘‘ On the Gravel Beds of Trentham Park,” 
with an account of the fossils collected by Mr. Molyneux, drawn up 
by the late Mr. J. W. Salter, A.L.S., F.G.S. In 1859, Messrs. 
Garner and Molyneux communicated a paper to the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science at Aberdeen, “On the Distri- 
bution of Organic Remains in the North Staffordshire Coal-field,” 
which was highly commended by Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, Bart. 
In 1860 Mr. Molyneux, communicated a paper to the Meeting of the 
