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existence was known to all, and Mr. Willett, in presenting it to the 
town, provided a monument of the scientific work of many years of an 
otherwise busy life. Mr. Etheridge,.of the Geological Survey and 
Museum, assured him that there were not three such cases in 
Europe. 
The Wealden collection, to which this Society made a handsome 
presentation, promised to become once more worthy of the county. 
Mr. Willett was constantly making additions, and Professor Rupert 
Jones was now making a selection of Wealden specimens, iguanodon, 
&c., which formerly belonged to Dr. Mantell, and he was sure they 
would all be glad to see them, by the Professor’s kindness, restored to 
Brighton. 
As an illustration of the advantage of having more Museums 
than one, he would show a little fossil plant. At the cleaning period, 
he found it broken in pieces. He mended and mounted it, and a fort- 
‘ night ago pointed it out to Mr. Carruthers, of the Botanical Depart- 
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ment of the British Museum. He at once pronounced it to be not 
only the rarest thing in the Museum, but that, as far as he knew, it 
was absolutely unique, A different specimen was figured by Mantell, 
as “a beautiful and rare plant Cycadites Brongniaritz, in sandstone, 
Tilgate beds.” That specimen had entirely disappeared, and he hoped 
to have the pleasure of lending theirs to Mr. Carruthers to be figured, 
as the only one known to be in existence. 7 
The Oolitic collection was contributed almost entirely by Sir 
Cordy Burrows; and the Lias included ‘fine reptilian and other 
remains, presented by Dr. Seymour. The cases for the Cambrian, 
' Devonian, Permian, and Trias, were almost empty; but they hoped 
that by presentations and otherwise tliese vast formations, as well as 
the Gault, and others, would soon be more fully represented. 
5 Friends of the Museum, both residents and visitors, had already 
done much in this way, especially in the Greensand, some of the 
promises made during the Brighton meeting of the British Associa- 
tion having but lately been carried out. 
Leaving the British-room, the Northern Gallery was devoted to 
Mineralogy, arranged in four cases, and to the rocks and products of 
existing Italian volcanoes, thelatterpresented by Mr. T. JJavidson, F.R.S. 
The case on the west landing wasone on which, like thoselast-mentioned, 
