A memoir of Caleb B. Rose, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. / by Horace B. Woodward.
- Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
- Date:
- [1893]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A memoir of Caleb B. Rose, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. / by Horace B. Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![sphere of professional labour, while the work of his leisure hours brought him into correspondence with many of the leading geologists and microscopists of his day. In 1859 Eose retired from practice and went to reside at 25 King Street, Great Yarmouth, where he passed the remainder of his days. Here he continued his geological observations, and they afforded him ample scope and solace after his busy professional career. In October, of the same year, he accompanied John Gunn, Prof. Prestwich, and Sir John Evans on a visit to Hoxne; and he again visited the locality in the following autumn. He records the finding, by the Eev. S. W. King, of two Celts or Hint- implements : one in brickearth four feet from the surface, the other from gravelly shingle between the brickearth and the fiuviatile bed that underlies it.* Eose paid some attention to the Glacial Drifts near Yarmouth, and ventured to doubt the occurrence of a lower Boulder Clay, speaking of the Lower Drift that occurs beneath the [Chalky] Boulder Clay, as a ferruginous loam with sands and gravels, while he employed the term Upper Drift for the gravels, &c. that overlie the Boulder Clay.t He refers also in one of his papers (1859) to a drifted mass of chalk lying upon the Kimmeridge Clay in a pit at Ely. | This statement is interesting, as some controversy subsequently arose on the mode of occurrence of the Chalk at this locality : and the rock was eventually proved to be a Boulder. In 1860 he drew the attention of John Gunn and Professor Prestwich to the deep boring at Lacon's Brewery at Yarmouth, whereby the presence of the London Clay and Woolwich and Eeading series was for the first time notified in Norfolk. || Eose himself has given some account of the boring, § and notes the presence of ten feet of Crag above the London Clay. The occurrence of Crag has always been a doubtful matter. Eose recorded the occurrence of Balanus, Mytilus edulis, and Tellina balthica. § * ' Geologist,' vol. iii. p. 347. t Ibid, p. 137. X Ibid, vol. ii. p. 295; aud 0. Fisher, Geol. Mag. 1868, p. 407. || Prestwich, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. voL.xvi. p. 449; and vol. xxviii. p. xliv. § ' Geologist,' vol. iii. p. 141.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22320118_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
