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MEMOIR OF CALEB B. ROSE. 
the British Association. He was at the hirst Cambridge meeting 
in 1S33, where he met William Smith; but it was not until the 
Manchester meeting of 1861 that he became a member of the 
Association. He was away at the Birmingham meeting when in 
the autumn of 1865 I went in company with Mr. T. G. Bayfield to 
call upon him ; but next year I had the privilege of seeing him 
and of glancing over many of his treasures from the Chalk and 
the Crag. One of the large Ammonites from the Lower Chalk 
( A . peramplus, two feet in diameter) and a double Paramoudra 
attracted my attention. 
Rose was active in promoting the successful reception of the 
British Association at Norwich in 1868, and (as afterwards remarked) 
“ it is to be feared he never recovered the exertions he made at 
that time.”* lie died at Yarmouth on January 29th, 1872, in the 
eighty-second year of his age. 
The large and valuable collection of fossils which he had 
gathered together and arranged was given, according to his wishes, 
to the Norwich Museum, f Although not confined to specimens 
from West Norfolk, the collection consisted chiefly of fossils from 
that district, and especially from the Chalk. Unfortunately, as 
I am informed by Mr. J. Reeve, the type specimens figured by 
Sowei'by were not presented to the Museum. 
In one of his early letters to S. Woodward, Rose remarked on 
the importance of collecting facts and avoiding theories. His 
published papers prove how clearly ho kept this idea in mind, and 
they remain of the highest value for reference on the districts he 
described. There is, I believe, in all geological literature no more 
valuable paper of its kind than Rose’s “ Sketch of the Geology of 
West Norfolk;” and Professor Prestwich has spoken of it as one 
of the best accounts of any county geology we possessed. * 
It is pleasant to look back at the time, some seventy-five years 
ago, when the four geologists mentioned at the beginning of this 
memoir commenced their labours ; to consider the state of science 
* Geol. Mag. 1872, p. 191. 
f Some accouut of this Collection was read before the Norwich Geological 
Society, in 1872, by John Gunn, sec ‘Norfolk News,’ No. 1424, April 6th, 
1872. 
J Obituary Notice of C. 11. ltose, Address to Geol. Soc. 1872. 
