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MEMOIR OP CALEB B. ROSE. 
Eose’s contemplated work on the Norfolk fossils did not make 
great progress, indeed he ultimately abandoned his idea of publish- 
ing a book on so comprehensive a subject, and it was left to his 
friend, S. Woodward, to bring out the first ‘Outline of the 
Geology of Norfolk,’ which was issued in 1833. 
In the meanwhile Eose forwarded specimens from time to time 
to James de Carle Sowerby, who since 1822 carried on the great 
work commenced by his father, James Sowerby. Writing to 
S. Woodward (Aug. 23, 1827) Eose says: “I sent this summer 
twenty specimens of Ammonites to Sowerby to name, and he 
found among them seven new species, or [species] not figured in 
his ‘ Mineral Conchology ’ ; he took sketches of them. I also sent 
him two new Serpulte, which he intends publishing.” On referring 
to Sowerby’s work (vol. vi. 1829), it will be seen that the following 
species from Eose’s collection are figured : — 
Baculites Faujasii, Sow. 
Inoceramus involutus, Sow. .. 
„ latus, Mant. 
Serpula obtusa, Sow. 
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As Miss Etheldred Benett and Dr. Mantell were at the time 
sending to Sowerby many chalk fossils from Wiltshire and Sussex, 
it is probable that they obtained better specimens than some of 
those sent by Eose ; an explanation sufficient to account for the 
fact that all Eose’s “ new species ” were not figured. 
Early in 1828 a sad trial came to him in the death of his wife, 
and for a time he contemplated leaving Swaffham. Writing to 
S. Woodward (Jan. 31) he says: “My heavy domestic calamity, 
that has taken from me an inestimable companion, has sadly broken 
in upon my pursuits, and it is very probable I shall leave my 
present house. I am at this time inclined to part with my 
collection of fossils, and think of offering it to the Norwich 
Museum. Do you think they have spirit or means to purchase 
it, for I cannot afford to give it?” 
Later on, in the same year, his interest happily revived. He finds 
a new Inoceramus, which was sent to Sowerby, but is somewhat 
surprised to learn that his shells from the brickearth of East Winch, 
in the Nar Valley, were not considered by that authority to be 
fossils. Sowerby did, however, figure the Aporrliais ( Rostellaria ) 
