LETTERS FROM JOHN BROWN TO S. P. WOODWARD. 14I 
that is connected with the diagrams which I sent you to enlarge for me, 
and which I find you was so kind as to do. All that is very, very obliging 
ol you ; but you have (undesignedly, I am sure) anticipated me with regard 
to the paper. That is the very thing I was preparing at home, and have 
now completed, and meanwhile I sent the diagram to you to ask you if you 
should have time to enlarge it for me, I knowing as I do your multifareous 
duties. 
I had also collected and prepared three groups of fossils from the 
three localities which produced the Post Tertiary fossils ; in all, a con¬ 
siderable number ; and these, displayed on the table, would have given 
an increased interest to the paper. These I would have either brought 
or sent, and, after the paper had been read, I should have given [them] 
to the Society, provided they thought them worthy of acceptance. 
However, as it is, I shall still offer them, as I consider the shells from 
the whole of these raised beds of high interest, especially those from the 
valley of the Colne. 
I shall feel obliged by your favouring me with a copy of the paper or 
the thing itself, and I will return it again. I am sorry that I was not more 
explicit in my letter that I sent with the section, and shall readily pay any 
expense that may be incurred by my own neglect. And with the shells 
from the Post Tertiary beds, I will send the paper at the same time. There 
would be no harm in offering it to the notice of the Society, as it was my 
mtention to send it through your hands in the first instance ; but, if I do 
send it, I must beg of you to lend it me for a short time afterwards, and, 
if you wish it, I will return it. But I must appeal to you in this, as in all 
other instances of etiquette with regard to the Geol. Society. 
If you can spend a week or two with me this Xmas, I shall be glad to 
see you, to help me eat some of my poultry, etc., etc. 
The Colchester people are about forming a Literary and Philosophical 
Institution. A Committee is formed and laws made, but they have as yet 
made no progress in raising money, which will be the next consideration. 
The Committee meets again to-morrow (Monday) evening. There are 
various opinions as to its success, the elements are so incongruous. 
Stanway, Jan. 25th, 1845. 
I am much disappointed that I have not had the pleasure of seeing you 
before this, as I had anticipated, but I am sorry to say that I have been 
very unwillingly detained at home by my little agricultural affairs, which 
have not gone so smoothly as I could have wished. At Michaelmas last, 
my old servants were exchanged for new ones, that were strangers to my 
horses and cattle ; and to me it always takes a short time to get things 
settled in a f arm after changing the men. But we are now getting more 
settled into our regular way, and I think long to break away and have a 
little relief, which I am panting to do the first opportunity. 
Stanway, May 31 si, 1845. 
I have just completely fixed up my Elk’s skull and horns in my own 
house, which is very unfit for them ; but I am loth to disturb them again 
so soon, ; nd it is dangerous to be taking them up and down so often. But 
their grandeur is lost in my low room. 
I think very likely that the white bed you speak of at Orford is the 
upper part of the London clay stained white with the calcareous matter 
from the Cor. Crag, thoug h you do not state whether the fossils are found 
in clay or sand ? There is a junction of the London Clay and Crag near 
to, if not at, Orford. 
I am very glad to hear that our friend Mr. Hall is employed in a very 
large establishment in London, at a good salary. 
