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Associated as lie was in his school-boy days with B. B. Woodward 
(afterwards librarian to the Queen at Windsor Castle) and with 
S. P. Woodward (subsequently author of a Manual of the Mollusca), 
ho imbibed a love for arclueology and natural history which 
influenced his subsequent career. Together the lads made many 
excursions in pursuit of insects, fossils, &c. With respect to one 
topic, that of poetry, Bayfield never manifested any feeling but 
that of abhorrence. My father, writing to a friend in 1811, 
remarked : “ For the last hour or two Bayfield had emitted no 
sound save a short little growl when I began to poetise on the dim 
high clouds that flitted over the glorious sky.” The only “poetry” 
ho would countenance was that beginning : “ Thirty days hath 
September!” Eventually Bayfield married the eldest daughter of 
Samuel Woodward. 
The subject of Coins was one in which Bayfield took great 
interest, and ho has told how this interest was aroused, for when 
a boy some one presented him with a bag of two hundred specimens, 
lie devoted much attention to Electrotypes, of which he made 
many examples ; and also helped others to follow this, at one 
time, popular hobby. On the subject of Ancient Seals lie was an 
authority, and ho rendered valuable assistance to the work on 
Norwich Cathedral by Dean Goulburn. In Geology he laboured 
more especially at the fossils of the Chalk and Norwich Crag ; and 
his collection from the former formation has been acquired by the 
British Museum, lie published, however, but little on this or any 
other subject, being content, and ever ready to communicate his 
stores of information to others. While engaged on the geological 
survey of the country around Norwich, 1 gathered many facts from 
my uncle (Bayfield), as noted in the official memoir. Two short 
communications of his were published: one, in 1851, “On the 
Occurrence of Trigonellites in the Upper Chalk at Norwich ” (Ann. 
and Mag. Nat. Ilist., ser. 2, vol. viiL p. 23G); and another, in 
18G4, on the “ Discovery of the Skeleton of Leiodon anceps in the 
Chalk at Norwich” (Geol. Mag. vol. i. p. 29G). 
Bayfield was an active member of the Norwich Geological 
Society during its term of existence, and first drew attention to the 
