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owed their origin ! ” Also to oppose the views of a certain 
Dr. Camerarius of Tubigen, who disagreed with him ! 
Sedgwick was the first Professor who delivered regular courses 
of lectures based on sound geological views, and upon the orderly 
succession of the rocks and their identification by fossil contents, 
as enunciated by William Smith. Like the late Sir Roderick 
Murchison, Sedgwick worked and wrote principally on the older 
Palaeozoic rocks of England and Wales, yet he contributed to the 
geology of the neighbourhood of Cambridge, including the forma- 
tions between the Chalk and the great Bedford level; and ho turned 
out a largo number of men who, like himself, became eminent and 
enthusiastic geologists,* many of whose names are the glory of 
English Geology. 
Among East Anglian Geologists the name of Samuel Woodward 
(1790 — 1837) of Norwich deserves a place. At an early age he 
commenced to make careful observations, collect fossils, and to 
study the works of Parkinson, William Smith, Conybeare, and 
Phillips, whilst the discovery of fossil bones on the coast of East 
Suffolk by Richard Taylor in 1822, induced him to make further 
researches at Cromer and Happisburgh, and ultimately to prepare 
and publish his “ Outlines of the Geology of the County of Norfolk,” 
which appeared in 1833, and “Some Remarks on the Crag formation 
of Norfolk,” in 1835 (Phil. Mag.). He also prepared a “ Synoptical 
Table of British Organic Remains,” issued in 1830, which was the 
basis of Prof. Morris’s Catalogue of British Fossils. 
Three sons and four grandsons of Samuel Woodward of Norwich 
have all pursued scientific careers. 
B. B. Woodward, F.S. A. (formerly the Queen’s Librarian), born 
in Norwich, 1816, died 1869. In his early days wrote upon 
geology and edited his father’s works. 
Samuel P. Woodward, F.G.S., born 1821, died I860, sometime 
Professor of Geology in the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 
was afterward for seventeen years assistant in the Geological 
Department of the British Museum, lie wrote several articles on 
* Sedgwick did great honour to William Smith, and when President of 
the Geological Society, he presented (in 1S31) the first Wollaston Medal to 
Smith, and styled him in his address, “ the Father of English Geology.” 
a title which we still desire to see associated with his name. 
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