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and tho following letter was addressed by Prof. Sedgwick to a 
committee of gentlemen interested in the alfairs : — 
“ Gentlemen, 
“ At your request, I have examined the late Mr. 
Woodward’s Geological Collection, and find it composed of a series 
of many hundred specimens, arranged in a well-filled Cabinet of 
forty-two drawers, besides many valuable Fossil Bones and other 
largo unarranged specimens. Several parts of this series are 
extremely good. For example, the specimens of Norfolk Crag 
are among the best I have ever seen ; and the specimens of 
Suffolk (’rag are also excellent ; many of tho Chalk Fossils arc 
very good ; and the Echinitcs are of great interest and value, 
having been collected to illustrate a work by himself, which was 
far advanced at the time of his death. I may also mention that 
the drawers containing a considerable scries of Ammonites, Bekm- 
nites, Crinoidea, and Secondary and Transition [Palaeozoic] Fossils; 
a small but beautiful set of Fossils from the Paris Basin ; and a 
very fine series of Coal Plants, chiefly derived from Newcastle and 
other parts of tho North of England. 
“ Considered as a whole, the Collection does great honour to the 
talents and long-continued zeal of its late proprietor : and some of 
the best parts of the series, having been derived from this and the 
neighbouring Counties, have a local interest which would make 
them a highly valuable addition to the Norfolk and Norwich 
Museum 
“ Surely such an appeal would not be made iu vain, when it is 
considered how much he effected with very slender means, and 
how much credit his published works have shed on his native 
County. I believe it is not too much to say that his life has been 
cut short by his devotion to science, and by his continuing (after 
the laborious duties of the day) to spend hours in study which 
ought to have been given to rest 
Believe me, Gentlemen, 
“ Your faithful Servant, 
“A. SEDGWICK.” 
Two of the works which he had in hand during the closing 
years of his life, were subsequently published. 
