MR. F. D. PALMER ON OLD-TIME YARMOUTH NATURALISTS. II 
plates. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1S02 ; of 
the Society of Antiquaries in 1803; of the Dublin Society and 
Royal Irish Academy in 1804; and of the Royal Society of 
Literature in 1824. The foreign literary honours conferred upon 
Mr. Turner were extremely numerous. In 1820 he published his 
‘Tour in Normandy,’ chiefly undertaken with a view of investigating 
the architectural antiquities of that duchy ; and lie wrote the 
letterpress for Cotman’s ‘ Etchings of Architectural Antiquities 
in Normandy,’ in two folio volumes. In 1831 Mr. Dawson Turner 
did good service to the antiquarian world by publishing the 
‘Correspondence of John Pinkerton,’ from the originals in bis 
own possession ; and in 1835 he edited and printed at Yarmouth 
‘The History of the Religious Orders and Communities and of the 
Hospitals and Castle of Norwich,’ written about the year 1725 by 
John Kirkpatrick. In 1839 lie printed, for private circulation 
only, a Catalogue of the Works of Art in the possession of Sir 
Peter Paul Rubens at the time of his decease, together with two 
‘ Letters ’ from Sir Balthazar Gerbier; and, in 1847, appeared his 
‘ Sepulchral Reminiscences,’ as afforded by a list of the interments 
within the walls of the parish church of St. Nicholas, Great 
Yarmouth, collected chiefly from monuments and gravestones 
still remaining in June, 1845. The book is dedicated to the 
Rev. Henry Mackenzie, then minister of the parish, and after- 
wards Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham. Mr. Turner also printed, 
for private distribution, ‘ Outlines in Lithography,’ being drawings 
on stone by several of the members of his talented family of 
pictures then in his possession. He was instrumental in establishing 
the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, of which lie 
became the first vice-president ; wrote the preface to the ‘ Norfolk 
Archseologia,’ and was a frequent contributor to its pages. The 
walls of his rooms were adorned with pictures by celebrated masters, 
and he had, in the course of years, collected a very extensive and 
valuable library, many of the works being plentifully illustrated. 
The most remarkable work of this description in Mr. Turner’s 
library was his ‘ Blometield’s History of Norfolk,’ the eleven 
volumes of which were swelled into seventy by the introduction 
of manuscripts, printed matter, drawings, and engravings. He 
passed the last few years of his life at llrompton, where he died 
in 1858, aged 83. 
