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THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
Stanway, March 23 rd, 1844. 
As I am indebted to you principally for my correspondence with 
your friend Mr. Win. Harris, of Charing, and also for the kind assistance 
which I have received from that gentleman in obtaining some fossils from 
the Kentish deposits, I beg to inform you that I am now contemplating a 
visit to him, by invitation, the early part of next month (April). 
At your leisure, I should esteem it a favour if you could inform me 
whether Professor Forbes has received a parcel containing some fossil 
Foraminifera from Mr. I. D. C. Sowerby, which I left in the latter gentle¬ 
man’s hands some time ago. The last time I was in town, he said he should 
send them to me, but as you stated to me that Professor Forbes wished 
to see some of the Foraminifera, from our coralloid ground, I sent him a 
few species and at the same time wrote to Mr. Sowerby to send to Professor 
Forbes those he has, which I left in his hands for figuring, instead of sending 
them to me. Mr. S. has not written to me, and whether he has sent 
them to Prof. Forbes, of course, I cannot tell. When Mr. S. first saw 
these fossils, he states thay were new, and ought to be figured ; but subse¬ 
quently he has altered his mind, and I shall be glad to submit them to 
the notice of the Professor. 
I have recently obtained a fragment of a canine jaw, containing the 
last molar, very perfect, with part of another. I think it will prove to 
be that of the Bear. I have no doubt that your adroitness could restore 
the whole jaw on paper in a very short time. I am getting a mould made 
of it, and shall send a cast to our excellent friend, Mr. Charlesworth, and 
any other friends wishing for one. This specimen was dredged up at sea, 
off our coast. It is charged with iron pyrites, extremely heavy, and the 
fossil bears marks of very high antiquity. 
Stanway, Nov. 10 th, 1844. 
I think it probable that I may see you before long, and then I will 
bring you the Terehratula and anything else that you may want. In the 
mean-time, I send you a little rough sketch of the geology of the Essex coast 
from St. Osyth point to Harwich, and at the same time to ask you if you 
wall have- the goodness to make an enlarged one to illustrate those points 
wffiere the recent shells lie in beds several feet above the present high 
water mark. I have collected from the several localities all the species 
I could find. 
The bed of shells in the Colne valley will be the most difficult for you 
to sketch, as it lies ten miles from the ocean, although only about 500 or 
600 yards from the River Colne on its western side. But what appears 
to me to be a difficulty does not to you. Probably you [will] think proper 
to make a sketch by itself of the valley and the bed of shells by the side 
of the Colne, but I shall be glad to have you to do as you please with it. 
You will save me a little time, if your other affairs will admit of your doing 
it for me, and I shall esteem it a favour and be much your debtor. 
The geological feature of the valley could be represented without 
giving a picture of the valley. I do not know that the latter is needful, 
but I shall be very glad to have your opinion if there is any difficulty. 
I am very sorry to say that our friend Hall is not clear of his difficulties 
yet. I went to his sale of books, and saw him and his young wife. It 
must have been a singular infatuation that induced him to chose such a 
time for marrying. He is now in search of a situation in some Museum. 
He says he will be satisfied with ^100 a year. Do you know of any situation 
that would suit him ? If you do, I am sure you would inform him or me. 
Stan way, Deer. 8 th, 1S44. 
That part of your letter received this morning very much surprised 
me where you say that the “ Paper was read last Wednesday evening," 
