440 Sussex Scientific and Literary Museum. 



on April 12. and May 24. 1836. The events of the meeting of the 

 latter date are reported in the Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser of 

 May 28. 



The Rev. Sir H. Dryden was in the chair. " He considered the results 

 contemplated by this, and institutions of a similar nature, to be three- 

 fold : firstly, the general advancement of science ; secondly, the increased 

 intercourse of gentlemen resident in the provincial districts, of congenial 

 pursuits and, tastes j and, thirdly, the benefit of public example in exciting 

 in the youth and the less educated classes of the neighbourhood a desire 

 for knowledge, and stimulating them to turn their attention to those 

 branches of science which the Society was desirous of promoting." 



Dr. Conolly (see in VI. 428 — 430.) read the report of the committee 

 appointed to find rooms suitable for the Society's purposes, and to draw 

 up rules. The committee had commenced arrangements by which the 

 Society will be enabled to have one of the large rooms in the Market 

 Hall, Warwick, for the immediate reception of specimens for the museum ; 

 and had a prospect of obtaining another, of equal size, and equally well 

 lighted, together with rooms for a curator, at a reasonable rent. The 

 rules were severally submitted to the meeting, and some of them com- 

 mented on. 



The Earl of Warwick was chosen patron j Chandos Leigh, Esq., presi- 

 dent ; and Dr. Lloyd and Mr. Blenkinsop, curators. 



Dr. Conolly reported the amount of some encouraging answers that he 

 had received to circulars that he had distributed. 



The Sussex Scientific and Literary Institution and Mantellian Museum. — 

 In the Brighton Herald of May 28. 1836, is a report of the extent of more 

 than a column, in small type, of the issues of " a delightful excursion to 

 Lewes and its vicinity [on May 23.] of the members of this Institution, 

 under the able guidance of Mr. Mantell, in quest of objects of antiquarian 

 and geological interest." The report is one delightful to read, and repre- 

 sents Mr. Mantell in a most estimable point of view. The party partook 

 of a cold collation, prepared for them on an appropriate spot, the mount of 

 the castle. Davies Gilbert, Esq., president of the Institution, was in the 

 chair ; and there were speeches from him, Mr. Mantell, Mr. Ricardo, and 

 a lady. " Mr. Mantell gives a lecture on corals at the [Brighton] town 

 hall [on May 30] ; and the museum is now open, with its stores of geological 

 fossils and antiquarian remains. The collection is of unrivalled interest 

 to naturalists and men of science, from the curious and antique character 

 of its contents ; while, from the order, purity, and excellent arrangement 

 of the whole, it is no less attractive and pleasing to the general public. 

 The first conversazione of the Institution took place " in the evening of 

 May 24. ; and the writer of the notice in the Brighton Herald understands 

 that there will be one every succeeding Tuesday. 



Since the preceding matter was put in type, a printed abstract of a 

 third lecture that Dr. Mantell had delivered " on behalf" of the above 

 Institution has been received. The subject is " Fossil Corals, and the 

 Marbles which they have formed." 



The Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 

 — The fact of the institution of this Society, and the Society's purposes, 

 are stated in VIII. 678, 679. It was instituted on June 26. 1835 j and a 

 report of its condition in January, 1836, has been published. It consisted 

 then of 190 members, and had received donations, for a museum, of speci- 

 mens of subjects of geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, conchology, and 

 antiquities, and money donations for fitting up receptacles for these ; 

 and donations of books for a library. A list of the individual donations is 

 supplied ; and the report includes an interesting review of them under the 

 head of the sciences to which they belong. There is prefixed to the 



