484 DR. HENRY WOODWARD ON EAST ANGLIAN GEOLOGY. 
Dr. John Ellor Taylor, F.L.S., F.G.S. (born September 21st, 
1835, died September 28th, 1895), an enthusiastic lover of Nature ; 
was connected with the press in Manchester and Norwich, and in 
1872 was appointed Curator of the Ipswich Museum. All his leisure 
hours were devoted to Geology, and he was the means, both in 
Norwich and Ipswich, by his lectures and writings, of stirring up 
people to take an interest in the geology of their own neighbour- 
hood ; he also made many excellent observations on the Chalk and 
Crag deposits. For many years he edited ‘ Science Gossip,’ but 
his health failing he retired from that position. His last appearance 
was at the British Association Meeting in Ipswich, in September, 
1895, when he spoke on the Stutton boring. 
The “Valhalla.” 
King Louis of Bavaria conceived the idea of erecting a “ A r alhalla,” 
or Temple of Fame, consecrated to men who had become renowned 
in war, statesmanship, literature, science, and art. 
This remarkable building stands at Katisbon, on the Danube. 
On one occasion King Louis took our countryman Sir Roderick 
I. Murchison (the celebrated geologist) and showed him that the 
name of Murchison had been inscribed upon one of the tablets, 
although he was an Englishman. The British Museum (Natural 
History) in Cromwell Road is gradually assuming the character of 
a “Valhalla,” having Statues of Sir Joseph Banks, Darwin, 
Owen, Huxley, busts of William Smith, Gray, Falconer, and 
Bowerbank, and portraits of Agassiz, Egerton, Enniskillen, and 
others. The bust of Sir William Flower is about to be added to 
the collection. 
In the Blackmore Museum at Salisbury the plan has been 
adopted of inscribing the names of men of science on the walls 
above the cases. 
I would suggest that the names and dates of donors to the 
Norwich Castle Museum, and those of workers in Geology and 
other branches of Natural History, or in Archaeology, might 
similarly be inscribed on the walls of the several Galleries, “ as 
a memorial to them that shall come after.” 
Your list of Norfolk worthies is great and so also is the list of 
those who have wrought in the geology of Fast Anglia and it 
deserves to be perpetuated. 
