2.--Died at his residence, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, Mr. Claude L. Nursey,
artist, the painter of the well-known pictures illustrating scenes in the
early days of the local Volunteer movement. He was a son of Mr. Perry
Nursey, of Little Bealings, Suffolk, and was in his 54th year.
15.--The Norwich Town Council received a letter from Whitehall,
intimating that as Mr. Secretary Bruce had received no information that
any steps had been taken by the Corporation for erecting a pauper lunatic
asylum, he had instructed the Solicitor to the Treasury to proceed in the
matter of the _mandamus_. (_See_ July 21st, 1874.)
21.--The resignation of Mr. A. W. Morant, City Engineer, and the author
of the first sewerage scheme, was received by the Norwich Town Council,
on his appointment as engineer to the borough of Leeds. On March 25th
Mr. Christopher Thwaites, C.E., of London, was appointed to the vacant
post.
27.--Died at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, LL.D.,
aged 87, Woodwardian Professor of Geology. He came of a North country
family, and was born at Dent, in Yorkshire. In due course he entered at
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1808,
as fifth wrangler. In 1810 he was elected to a Fellowship in his
College, of which at his death he was the senior member. He succeeded,
in 1818, Professor Hailstone in the chair of Geology, founded at
Cambridge by the celebrated Dr. John Woodward. Professor Sedgwick had
been a Canon of Norwich Cathedral since 1834.