CHAPTER III 
SOMETHING ABOUT FOSSILS 
I HAVE before me a newspaper cutting which tells 
of some good work done by a fifteen-year-old Hun- 
stanton boy. It says this boy, named Jackson, 
who is in very humble circumstances, and has had 
little schooling, has published a book entitled : 
“The Rocks of Hunstanton and its Neighbourhood.” 
The book describes the various forces which have 
been active in the formation of geological strata, 
with special reference to the Hunstanton district, 
and it gives an account of Hunstanton Cliff, glacial 
deposits, the submerged forest, and the red chalk 
found there. When Jackson was only ten years 
old he had a book on geology given to him by a 
visitor. He became greatly interested in the sub- 
ject, studied his local geology, gathered a fine col- 
lection of fossils, and now has written a book. You 
will find a portrait of Jackson on Plate 12, a. 
Well, I hope my present effort will induce many 
young people to do what Jackson has done. If he 
could get such an amount of geological knowledge 
by the time he was fifteen as to enable him to write 
a useful book, surely others with thought and 
application can do something as useful. At any 
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