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Woodward, of Norwich, who was hut a few months his junior in 
age. The latter hearing from the Rev. James Layton, of Catfield, 
that Rose contemplated bringing out a work on Norfolk Fossils, 
wrote (May 21) to offer any assistance he could give to this project." 
Shortly afterwards Rose came to Norwich, and henceforth the two 
geologists became good triends, helping one another by the loan of 
hooks and the exchange of specimens, and communicating news of 
the observations and discoveries they made in their respective 
neighbourhoods. S. Woodward visited Rose at Swaffham in the 
same year, and they thus made acquaintance with the fossil 
treasures that each had gathered together — the one mainly from 
the strata of Upper Chalk and Crag in East Norfolk, the other 
from the Middle and Lower Chalk and the brickearth of West 
Norfolk. 
Rose had commenced his labours when but little was known 
about the geology of West Norfolk, excepting from the desc riptions 
of agricultural writers, and the early map of William Smith, 
published in 1819. Later on, in 1823, R. C. Taylor t gave some 
account of the Alluvial Strata and the Chalk of Norfolk and 
Suffolk ; and also published a brief though detailed description 
of the strata in Hunstanton Cliff — the only important natural 
section in West Norfolk. 
These were the few special works relating to the district; but in 
the ‘Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales,’ by Conybeare 
and Phillips (1822), although there were but brief references to 
West Norfolk, there were general accounts of the Chalk and other 
strata, most valuable for reference and comparison. Stimulated in 
his studies by this work, and still more perhaps by the great work 
of the two Sowerbys, on ‘ Mineral Conchology,’ then in course of 
publication, Rose pursued his work with ardour, carefully noting 
all sections of the strata, and gathering together all the fossils 
which he could obtain. Writing of William Smith (in 1834) 
Rose says: “the more I examine West Norfolk, the more I can 
confirm his early observations.” 
* S. Woodward had in 1825 nearly completed two MS. works, illustrated 
with about 300 coloured drawings of the fossils of the Norwich Crag and 
Chalk. See Memoir in Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. ii. p. 570. 
t Trans. GeoL Soc. ser. 2, vol. i. p. 374; and Phil. Mag. vol. lxi. p. 81. 
