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attendance at the bank on the morrow, saying he would try and 
obtain for him a place then vacant. The appointment was duly 
kept, he was installed in the bank, and there he occupied a 
position for the remainder of his life. 
By this change he was brought prominently under the notice of 
Hudson Gurney, of Keswick, and Dawson Turner, of Yarmouth, 
both Fellows of the Royal Society, and to their kindly help and 
encouragement he very largely owed the opportunity of prose- 
cuting his favourite studies, and the success which attended his 
labours. To them he was particularly indebted for the loan of 
books, and for aid in his publications. 
The works of Parkinson, William Smith, and later on that of 
Conybeare and Phillips, became his text-books, while the writings 
of Richard Taylor gave an impetus to his local researches. 
Taylor’s earliest paper was’published in 1822,'"' and in the following 
year my grandfather made his first tour of the coast, but, as he 
records, “ without obtaining any specimens of fossil bones.” In 
the spring of 1824, a friend sent him two grinders of the elephant 
from Mundesley, and soon after he made another excursion from 
Yarmouth to Cromer along the beach, and obtained some good 
specimens ; and might, he says, have obtained some very large and 
fine ones, but for the difficulty of conveyance. 
From this year until the time of his death he maintained a 
considerable correspondence with many of the leading naturalists 
and geologists of the day. The letters he received, together with 
many miscellaneous memoranda, are preserved in eleven quarto 
volumes in the possession of Mr. T. G. Bayfield, and to these I 
am largely indebted for the materials upon which my notes are 
now based. During this period of fourteen years lie seems to have 
kept every scientific letter he received, consequently while many 
are full of information — and it must be remembered, that in those 
days letter-writing was, as a rule, far more elaborate and careful 
than it is now — yet not a few possess but the interest of auto- 
graphs. Alike the seeker, and the sought, after information 
relating to coins, rings, seals, merchant marks, and ancient build- 
ings, he maintained also a series of notes and queries on many 
* “ Fossil Bones on the Coast of East Norfolk.” r/ril. Mag., Vol. lx., 
p. 1 32. 
