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His death was very sad, he went to Doiicaster, to arrange for 
coals for the poor, and met there one of tlie school trustees, whose 
unmerited abuse he so nincli took to heart, that he died at Doncaster 
the same day, it was said of heart disease, and was brought home, 
the first man to be buried in the new church yard. I am sorry my 
information is so poor. When the church was restored, his four 
daughters subscribed and placed a stained glass window representing 
the four evangelists, to his memory. There is a brass tablet in the 
church to this effect. 
His eldest daughter, Mrs. Alexander, was the largest subscriber 
to the restoration, which I carried out. 
He died in 18G0, I think ! 
Yours faithfully, 
J. R. Baldwin. 
Prior to 1840 the Yorkshire Agricultural Society had requested 
Professor John Phillips to prepare a Report on the Geological Consti- 
tution of the Soils of the County ; but he, having undertaken, at the 
request of the Lords' Commissioners of H.M. Treasury, to describe, 
for the purpose of publication, the Organic Remains of the Older 
Strata of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, collected by Sir 
Henry de la Beche and his assistants on the Ordnance Geological 
Survey, was obliged to decline the work. It was proposed that the 
Rev. W. Thorp should prepare Reports on the several districts of the 
county, and this he agreed to do, and an admirable and most useful 
series of papers was the result. 
At the annual meeting, held at Wakefield on October 5th, 1840, 
the Rev. W. Thorp- read the first of a series of papers " On the 
Agriculture of the West Riding considered geologically." In this 
paper he took the New Red Sandstone district. The paper is 
printed in externa in the proceedings of the Society ; but in order to 
indicate the growing interest in geological work by those more 
especially engaged in the cultivation of the soil, it appears desirable 
to give one or two extracts from the paper. The intimate relation 
which subsists between Agriculture and Geology was evident to every 
scientific agriculturist ; indeed of such importance was it that a sub- 
committee had been appointed by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society 
