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To the Society of Antiquaries he communicated in May, 1832, a 
general account of Icenian Antiquities, including pottery, stone 
and bronze implements and weapons, querns, &c. 
The year 1833 saw the publication, on the 1st May, of his 
‘ Outline of the Geology of Norfolk,’ one of the first works 
describing the geology of any English county, and one which in 
its plan and scope has not at present been superseded. Much 
necessarily requires remodelling in the classification and nomen- 
clature of both the strata and their included fossils ; but the work 
has retained its place as the standard book of reference, and was 
used as a basis by Dr. Barrois, when describing the Chalk of 
Norfolk, in his recent work on the Cretaceous strata of England 
and Ireland (187G). It is indeed chiefly in respect to the drift or 
glacial deposits that our knowledge has increased, which may be 
seen when w r e compare the careful map of Messrs. Wood and Harmer, 
with that attached to the ‘ Geology of Norfolk;’ one only wishes 
that these authorities had given us as excellent a picture of the 
Geology of West Norfolk, as they have of its eastern division. 
Our present knowledge would not, however, enable us much to 
modify the divisions and boundaries of the Secondary and Tertiary 
strata from the Kimeridge clay to the Crag, which are depicted in 
this older map. 
As a critique on this work, I cannot do better that quote the 
opinion of his friend, Dr. Mitchell (in a letter 'written March Gth, 
1837). “Your little book on Norfolk, though most unhappily 
brief, has however this great merit, that what is in it w r e can 
believe, and if the author has fallen into the sin of telling a 
great deal less than he knows, he has avoided the hundred times 
greater sin of telling more than he knows.” 
He touched very little upon theoretical questions, although, in 
his theological tenets — ho w'as “ a partial conformist to the Church 
of England” — he was led, as were most other geologists of the time, 
to believe in a universal deluge. And one speculation ho ventures 
to make known to Dr. Mantell (July, 1831), writing, “ we arc led 
by the Sacred Scriptures to believe that there will be a resurrection 
of our bodies, and that we shall appear in a material form. As 
this is to be the case, why may not the human remains of the 
former world have been raised in like manner 1 ” Dr. Mantell 
apparently had nothing to say to this. 
