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zoophytes are quoted the late Dr. Johnston, and the before-men- 

 tioned later authorities ; on star-fishes, the late Prof. E. Forbes ; 

 on crustaceans, Professor Bell; on fishes and birds, the late 

 Mr. Yarrell ; on the vegetation. Hooker and Arnott. These 

 names stand in the very foremost ranks among the promoters of 

 natural science in the present day. The resident naturalists who 

 have contributed to the completion of the lists are Mr. Mitten, 

 who furnished lists of phsenogamous plants, ferns, and mosses ; 

 Mr. Unwin, who contributed lists of lichens, zoophytes, star- 

 fishes, insects, land and fresh-water moUusca, etc. ; lists of lepi- 

 dopterous insects were furnished by Mr. H. Cooke, Mr. J. Win- 

 ter, etc. ; Dr. Gunther supplied accounts of marine moUusca ; 

 Mr. Pike seaweeds, etc. ; the Reverend Messrs. Dennis and Hus- 

 sey are honourably mentioned. This small book, as it may be 

 called, of under 230 octavo pages, contains the entire zoology, 

 botany, and geology of this part of the Sussex coast, downs, and 

 wealden tracts. 



Unlike the reviewers who sprang up at the beginning of the 

 present century, — and the race is not, to use a scientific term, yet 

 extinct, — the writer of this notice has read the book which he is 

 reviewing : and he can assure his readers, be they few or numer- 

 ous, scientific or unskilled in natural lore, that the work is not a 

 mere catalogue of things represented by what the facetious and 

 satirical portion among litterateurs call unpronounceable or crack- 

 jaw words of formidable dimensions and inharmonious sounds. 



We have now briefly, and in a comprehensive way, stated the 

 contents of the work, and the authorities on which the state- 

 ments are founded. To be brief, it may be said that it contains 

 the names, the localities, the habits, etc., of the most interesting 

 of the natural or native productions of this part of the country. 

 It now remains for us to give our opinion of the way in which 

 this has been done, and to state generally the claims of the work 

 to public patronage, or rather to circulation among naturalists 

 in general. 



It cannot reasonably be expected that our readers, who have 

 not read or seen or perhaps heard of the work, should have the 

 same convictions about its value and usefulness as we entertain, 

 who have read it carefully. We cannot even afford to give docu- 

 mentary proof such as the Greek simpleton gave of the quality 

 of his house. He carried a brick in his pocket ; it was not an 



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