A memoir of Caleb B. Rose, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. / by Horace B. Woodward.

  • Woodward, Horace B. (Horace Bolingbroke), 1848-1914.
Date:
[1893]
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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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    Rose's contemplated work on the Norfolk fossils did not make great progress, indeed he ultimately abandoned his idea of publish- ing a book on so comprehensive a subject, and it was left to his friend, S. Woodward, to bring out the first * Outline of the Geology of Norfolk,' which was issued in 1833. In the meanwhile Rose forwarded specimens from time to time to James de Carle Sowerby, who since 1822 carried on the great work commenced by his father, James Sowerby. Writing to S. Woodward (Aug. 23, 1827) Rose says: I sent this summer twenty specimens of Ammonites to Sowerby to name, and he found among them seven new species, or [species] not figured in his ' Mineral Conchology'; he took sketches of them. I also sent him two new Serpulse, which he intends publishing. On referring to Sowerby's work (vol. vi. 1829), it will be seen that the following species from Rose's collection are figured :— Baculites Faujasii, Sow. ... ... Fig. 592 Inoceramus involutus, Sow. ... ... „ 583 As Miss Etheldred Benett and Dr. Mantell were at the time sending to Sowerby many chalk fossils from Wiltshire and Sussex, it is probable that they obtained better specimens than some of those sent by Rose : an explanation sufficient to account for the fact that all Rose's new species were not figured. Early in 1828 a sad trial came to him in the death of his wife, and for a time he contemplated leaving S waff ham. Writing to S. Woodward (Jan. 31) he says: My heavy domestic calamity, that has taken from me an inestimable companion, has sadly broken in upon my pursuits, and it is very probable I shall leave my present house. I am at this time inclined to part with my collection of fossils, and think of offering it to the Norwich Museum. Do you think they have spirit or means to purchase it, for I cannot afford to give it? Later on, in the same year, his interest happily revived. He finds a new Inoceramus, which was sent to Sowerby, but is somewhat surprised to learn that his shells from the brickearth of East Winch, in the Nar Valley, were not considered by that authority to be fossils. Sowerby did, however, figure the Aporrhais (Eostellaria) „ latus, Mant. Serpula obtusa, Sow. 582 608