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and the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee, in the east of the 

 county, would be a subject for present work ; while the magnificent 

 collection of chalk fossils in the Brighton Museum, made and pre- 

 sented to the town by Mr. H. Willett, and rightly designated " The 

 Willett Collection," — and of which a catalogue was in existence, 

 would form a nucleus for the formation of a list — and Mantell's 

 collection — alas, no longer in the county, but of which information 

 could be obtained — indicated the direction in which, in his opinion, 

 a sub-committee taking under its charge the two subjects of 

 meteorology and geology might very profitaljly work. The maps 

 of the county, published by the Survey, and showing the geological 

 formations, would be of great use to such a committee. 



Thei'e wbs another very important subject which ought to be 

 entrusted to a separate sub-committee, viz., " The Anthropology 

 of the County of Sussex," The functions of the committee would, 

 he thought, in no way trench upon those of that society whose 

 annual meeting had been held that day at Lewes, viz., the " Sussex 

 Archaeological Society," though some points it might have to con- 

 sider would be identical with those published in that society's 

 collections, which would be of very great service to this committee. 



He need scarcely remind the members of the society that many 

 and diiferent peoples had, at different times, inhabited the county; 

 whether under the names of pre-historic Britons, the palaeolithic and 

 neolithic stone-implement-using men, invaders from Gaul, who settled 

 on our southei'n shores, and whose cromlechs or temples, such as 

 that at Stonehenge, testified to their religious rites and ceremonies. 

 The so-called god, the "long man" at Wilmington, would be a very 

 natural subject of inquiry, as to whether it really was what it had 

 been described, or rather the work of the mediajval monks. Good 

 service had been done by one of their members — Mr Ernest Willett 

 — by his excavation at Cissbuiy, the account he gave of which must 

 be fresh in the memory of the society, who would be glad to hear 

 his views had been confirmed in a remarkable degree by the excava- 

 tions of Colonel Lane Fox and others, but still, much more remained 

 to be done in the county iu relation to the period to which Cissbury 

 as a flint-implement factory, belonged. Then the Romans, with 

 their four hundred years of occupation, had left many interesting 

 facts which needed classification and arrangement, so that what 

 belonged to them, might be separated from the people who preceded 





