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intelligence, devotion, and, we know, self-sacrifice, by which the 

 lamented author enriched his collection, so as to render it available 

 for the purpose of science ; nor has he forgotten gratefully to acknow- 

 ledge the assistance of numerous friends who have contributed speci- 

 mens for illustration in the work. To the archseologist as well as 

 the geologist this volume is acceptable, as in it he will find notices, 

 with illustrative woodcuts, of various interesting British and Roman 

 coins, vessels and implements found near Worthing ; and as charac- 

 teristic of his pursuit, although apparently out of place in a geological 

 treatise, we feel that " a local geologist, whose immediate researches 

 were into the history of the remoter antiquities of his district, could 

 hardly fail to have his interest excited by the analogous evidence of 

 the past history of his own race." In fact, as ably shown by Dr. 

 Mantell in a paper read before the Archaeological Association at Ox- 

 ford, there is an intimate connection between archaeology and geology ; 

 and the entombment of man and his works at different portions of 

 the historical period, indicative of changes to which the human race 

 has been subjected in the same region, are but the faint counterparts 

 of those mightier revolutions by which whole dynasties of organized 

 beings have been successively changed — those lost tribes of plants 

 and animals which once inhabited the globe. As bearing on this 

 subject we extract the following remarks relative to an interesting 

 ornamented vase found in cutting the railroad near Worthing in 

 1845:— 



" Imported red Samian pottery with stags and animals has been 

 occasionally found in England ; but this curious relic I think, from 

 its material and manufacture, was made in this country, and is of 

 double interest ; first, as a specimen of art, and secondly, as repre- 

 senting animals almost extinct, which were formerly common in 

 England, as geological evidence fully corroborates, and showing 

 besides how the red deer, like the ox, goat, wolf, and other animals, 

 has been scattered and destroyed by the hand of civilization." 



It must however be admitted that the great interest of the work 

 depends upon the valuable contributions by the following eminent 

 naturahsts : — Prof. Owen the Reptiles, Prof. E. Forbes the Echino- 

 derms, Mr. Lonsdale the Corals, Mr. Bell the Crustaceans, Mr. J. 

 Sowerby the Mollusks and ForaminifercB ; and Sir P. Egerton kindly 

 assisted in revising the author's notes on the extinct fishes of the 

 Chalk, and in describing the plates illustrative of that class of the 

 cretaceous fossils. 



These descriptions are accompanied by forty-four beautifully exe- 

 cuted plates, by artists whose names are a sufficient guarantee of their 

 accuracy, J. de C. Sowerby, Dink el, Erxleben, and Aldous. A useful 

 list of the tertiary and cretaceous fossils, with references, synonyms, 

 and localities, will be found in the volume. 



Among the eocene reptiles described by Prof. Owen are two new 

 species of serpents, Palceophis typhceus and P. porcatus, Owen, two 

 new species of Chelone, C. trigoniceps and C. declivis, Owen, and some 

 fine remains are noticed which prove the former existence in England, 

 during the early tertiary period, of a Gavial, G. Dixoni : " this genus 



