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Norfolk must be known to many of your readers, and be fully 
concurs in my opinion ; with this addition, that be would recom- 
mend a quantity of cliingle to be spread over the new surface, in 
preference to planting it with the Marram grass, which he considers 
worse than useless. He says he recommended the same plan to be 
adopted with the Marram Hills and found it to answer his fullest 
expectations.” 
I might add, that this method of obliterating the sections along 
the coast of Norfolk, would be a very effectual way of putting an 
end to some of the geological disputes. 
He attended the meeting of the British Association held this j r ear 
(1833) at Cambridge, but did not seem altogether much gratified 
with his visit. As his friend, Mr. Bose, remarked in a letter dated 
July 4th, “authorities were ponderous,” and we are “insignificant 
labourers.” He added, “Among the authorities Mrs. Murchison 
ranks high, as I believe you told me, and I had an example of it ; 
on the Friday morning, [William] Smith and myself were convers- 
ing about the Bilney shells, when up came Mr. and Mrs. M. Smith 
asked Mr. what the shells were, he hum’d and lia’d, and then 
appealed to the grey marc saying ‘ she knowed most about them,’ 
and so it proved, for she immediately pronounced them to be London 
day fossils. What do you think of petticoat government ? ” 
This year was an eventful one to him, as to many others, inas- 
much as Sedgwick first came to Norwich, as a canon of Norwich 
Cathedral. 
Dr. Mantell writing from Brighton (December 14tli, 1834), 
says : “ Believe me you are most fortunate to have such a man near 
you : it will more than compensate for your distance from all the 
other savans in England. I think Mr. Sedgwick by far the most 
talented and splendid man we can boast of. I only wish we had 
a cathedral here and he had a stall in it.” 
During the Professor’s residence in Norwich, they not un- 
frequently met, Sedgwick often inviting him, and occasionally 
coming to spend an evening looking over the treasures in his 
collection. A silhouette preserved among my grandfather’s papers, 
was reduced from a tracing of Professor Sedgwick’s shadow, which 
ho took in January, 183GJ*' 
* la his collection are silhouettes also of Wm. Bean, C. B. Rose, 
Dr. Mantell, Dr. J. Mitchell, and Miss Benett. 
