In 1855 he was engaged by Sedgwick to assist in the Woodwardian Museum[?] at Cambridge, and during the following three years he aided the professor by delivering lectures. He discovered bones of birds in the Cambridge Greensand[?], and he also prepared a geological map of Cambridge on the one-inch Ordnance map[?]. In 1859, when twenty-two years of age, he was appointed director of the Geological Survey of Jamaica[?]. He there determined the Cretaceous age of certain rocks which contained Hippurites[?], the new genus Barrettia[?] being named after him by S. P. Woodward[?]; he also obtained many fossils from the Miocene and newer strata[?]. He was drowned at the early age of twenty-five, on December 18, 1862, while investigating the sea-bottom off Kingston, Jamaica.
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