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PALÆONTOLOGY has sustained a severe loss in the death of the veteran explorer of the English Pliocene deposits. Born towards the close of the last century, the late Mr. Wood was from an early age an ardent collector and student of the fossils so abundantly found in the crag-pits of East Anglia. At this period the facilities for collecting the fossils of the English Pliocene strata were much greater than at present. Fresh pits for the purpose of obtaining the shelly marls and sands, which were then extensively used for manure, were continually being opened in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, while at the present time the new chemical manures have caused the crag to be quite neglected by agriculturists. The geologist who visits the Eastern Counties at the present day to study the Pliocene has to content himself with such exposures as he can find in old pits, now often overgrown with vegetation and which are used as sheep-folds or stackyards.
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J., J. Searles Valentine Wood . Nature 23, 40–41 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023040a0
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