this country — all these associations must ho sacrificed at one fell 
swoop, for no other purpose than that previously named 
Had any of the gentlemen [those who advocate the restoration] 
lost a nose, how would they take the consolation of being told that 
their face’s best feature could be restored by the Tallicotian process, 
aye, precisely like the original. Do you think they would feel 
satisfied that it was bona fide their original nose? 
“ C1YIS.” 
This evoked a poetical reply from Mr. William Mason, jun., of 
Necton, one of whose verses was : 
“ I never yet had thought to see, 
Such champion on duty, 
Who stoutly thus in lists maintains, 
A lack of nose a beauty.” 
On August 13th he writes to the ‘Norwich Mercury 
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We must venerate its very decay, since this is but a conse- 
quence of the time through which it lias endured ; and, however 
we may desire to see its noble style of architecture perpetuated in 
future erections, we must at the same time deprecate the rage for 
utility, that would violate its solemn repose They 
[who think, with him] had rather see it crumble beneath the touch 
of time, than joined and squared and veneered, and polished, till 
like the Athenian vessel, it retain not an atom of its original 
structure ” 
In a letter subsequently addressed (Oct. 26th) to the ‘ Norwich 
Mercury,’ he points out that Gurdon, King, and Wilkins have 
proved the architecture to be Saxon, not Norman. “That being 
the case, it is the only remains of the kind in the world, and 
consequently it is of the greatest importance to the archaeologists 
that it is not defaced.” It is perhaps needless to add, that the 
work of restoration was carried out. 
As early as 1834 ho had planned out a monograph on the 
Echinidae, which occupied much of his time until his death. lie 
made many plaster casts of rare species, duplicates of which ho 
presented to various museums. 
In February, 1835, he delivered a lecture on “The Antediluvian 
