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Keeping a weather diary this year (1833), it is interesting to 
note that there were only four rainy days in May. 
lie also records with pride that on October 29th, his eldest son, 
Bernard,* then aged seventeen, read his iirst paper at the Mechanics’ 
Institution, on the subject of our British strata, to an audience of 
more than a hundred persons, llis son for a time became a resident 
at East Dereham, and a letter from Mr. (now Sir James) Paget, 
dated Yarmouth, August 17tli, 1834, encloses a list of plants 
which lie thought it probable might be obtained near that town, 
adding, “ I assure you that the excursion I took with your son 
afforded mo pleasure fully equal to that which he could have 
received, and I shall be very glad at any time or place, to show the 
same attention to one so interestingly ardent and acute in the 
study.”! 
The ‘Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth,’ by C. J. and 
James Paget was published in 1834, and to the introduction of 
that work he contributed a few geological notes. 
Ilis sons, Bernard and Samuel, about this time took notes of the 
dates of flowering plants for Mr. Hewctt C. Watson, who gives 
each a copy of one of his works, in return for the records sent, 
saying in a letter (August 13th, 1834), “I only hope that othex-s 
[lists] promised will be half as full ; in which case we may arrive 
at a fair estimate of the climate and progress of nature in different 
parts of Britain, by comparisons.” 
About this time he removed to Grove Cottage, Lakenham, where 
ho spent the short remainder of his days. 
The notes of a visit which he paid this year to the Bov. 
W. T. Spurdens at North Walsham, contain some interesting 
memoranda which I here quote : “ In the evening Mr. S. shewed 
mo the flint arrow head from Hoxnc and described the bed in 
which it was found, with a cart load or two more, together with 
about two loads of chippings, which were used to mend the roads; 
as were a principal part of the arrow heads, so that this spot was 
* Mr. B. B. Woodward, B.A. (bond.), F.8. A., afterwards Librarian to 
Her Majesty at Windsor Castle. 
t One or two of the species found at Dereham are recorded by S. P. 
Woodward, “Flora of Central Norfolk,” Ann. and May. Nat. Hist., New 
Ser., Yol. vil, p. 201. 
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