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some clerical duties]; and that he would go along with them 

 in the promotion of the objects of the museum as far as his 

 health and circumstances would allow." ( The Bury and Nor- 

 wich Post, Jan. 27. 1836.) 



Sussex Scientific and Literary Institution and Museum. — 

 Pursuers and promoters of the pursuit of science, connected 

 with Sussex, have been endeavouring to establish what cor- 

 responds to this title. It is instituted on the basis of exhibit- 

 ing publicly Dr. Mantell's museum (III. 9 — 17.; VI. 75.; 

 VII. 49.; VIII. 99—102. 125, 126.) for three years, under 

 arrangements agreed on ; and subject to the conditions of the 

 public exhibition being, at the option of either party, discon- 

 tinued at the expiration of that term, or, with the concur- 

 rence of both, renewed ; and of the Institution's claiming the 

 first offer of purchase, should Mr. Mantell be induced to dis- 

 pose of it ; and has for its objects, besides this, the formation 

 of a permanent county library of reference, and the connexion 

 of a reading-room, and the supplying of lectures on various 

 subjects. Previously to Feb. 2. 1836, a meeting had been 

 held at Brighton, the vicar in the chair ; and Lord Egremont 

 had become the patron, and made a magnificent donation ; 

 and the donations of others and his had amounted to upwards 

 of 1 400/. ; and several persons had become subscribers, and 

 committees had been formed. The sub-committee had been 

 endeavouring to procure suitable premises in a central part 

 of the town, and had requested cooperation and support, 

 even donations of books, to enable them to carry the Institu- 

 tion's objects into effect on a scale worthy of Sussex and 

 Brighton. 



A Zoological Garden is being instituted at Bristol. — P. M., 

 jun. Bristol, Nov. 18. 1835. 



The Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. — A list 

 of a few species of animals, almost all birds, and most of 

 these aquatic ones, kept in a living state in this garden, is 

 registered in Gard. Mag., xi. 43. Since then Miss Bevan has 

 presented a pair of the pure white variety of the common 

 pheasant ; the Rev. H. Cholmeley, an extraordinary mule 

 bird ; Mr. R. Hedley, surgeon, Bury, an Esquimaux dog ; 

 and Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., a female of a species of monkey 

 with a prehensile tail, and a young male ocelet. The Esqui- 

 maux dog appeared to have suffered much from its passage on 

 board a whaler. (Sir J. Ross, in his Appendix, mentions 

 the remarkable fact, that " an American wolf will go amongst 

 any number of Esquimaux dogs, and carry off any one from 

 amongst them, without the others attempting to attack it ; 

 and such is their extreme dread of the wolf, that they begin to 



