geological topics. Among bis correspondents whose letters are 
preserved, the following are noteworthy : —William Bean (of 
Scarborough), C. W. Peach, R. C. Taylor, Hudson Gurney, 
Dawson Turner, the Rev. James Layton (of Catfield), Thomas 
Amyot (Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries), J. W. Robberds, 
Miss Etheldred Benett,* Goddard Johnson, H. Denny (of Leeds), 
Daniel Stock (of Bungay), Dr. Buckland, Professor Sedgwick, 
Dr. Mantell, G. B. Baker (of Bungay), Charles lvbnig, R. I. 
Murchison, John Phillips, Dr. James Mitchell, William Gilbertson 
(of Preston), the Lev. Thomas Image (of Whepstead), the Rev. 
George Munford, the Rev. W. Foulger. Among short notes, 
valuable as autographs, may be mentioned those from Fitton, 
De la Beche, Lyell, Agassiz, Sir Philip Egerton, Elizabeth Fry, 
Harriet Martineau, and Charles Warterton. 
llis first letter to Mr. Caleb Rose, of Swaffham, was written in 
May, 182G, and from that date there was an uninterrupted corres- 
pondence, mostly on geological matters, until my grandfather’s 
death. The enthusiasm of the two friends seems to have been 
great; every discovery of a new fossil was at once communicated, 
while books and specimens were lent, borrowed, and exchanged 
in a way that speaks well for the prosecution of science in 
those days. 
In 1821, when thirty-four years of age, he made his first 
communication to one of the learned societies in London. This 
consisted of a series of Maps and Plans of Ancient Norfolk, 
which ho submitted to the Society of Antiquaries, through Mr. 
Hudson Gurney. One of those was a map of the county during 
the Roman period, showing so far as could be ascertained, the 
several stations and roads; another pictured the great estuary, 
which it was considered had spread itself to Vcnta Icenovum, 
before the sands on which Yarmouth was built were left uncovered 
by the sea. This latter map was based on one belonging to the 
Corporation of Yarmouth, called the ‘ Hutch Map,’ and which had 
been engraved for Ives’ ‘ Remarks upon the Garianonum of the 
Romans,’ with, however, many inaccuracies as to places and 
distances, which were now corrected. To the general accuracy of 
* Well known to geologists as the authoress of A Catalogue of the 
Organic llemains of the County of Wilts, 1831 . 
