Mantellian Museum at Lewes. 9° 
Xylographer I name thee, Bewick, taught 
By thy wood-art, that from rock, flood, and tree, 
Home to our hearths, all lively, light, and free, 
In suited scene, each living thing has brought 
‘As life elastic, animate with thought. 
Well hast thou Fabled too, would man but see 
Each masqued lure. And oh! what cordial glee 
To con thy fancies shrewd, and sharply wrought ! 
Age-honour’d friend, of open heart and mind, 
‘Like Nature’s fields, all bounteous, broad, and bright 
With freedom, love, sublimity, and mirth : 
Thy praise in thy own page fair Truth has shrined 
Gladsome ; for each declares, in lines of light, 
How heaven’s high choral-songs preach to dull ears of earth. 
Joun F. M. Dovasrton. 
Westfelton, near Shrewsbury, 
Nov. 8. 1829. 
(To be concluded in our next.) 
Art. Il. A Visit to the Mantellian Museum at Lewes. 
By Rosert BAKEWELL, Esq. 
Sir, 
Havine recently passed part of three days with much sa- 
tisfaction in examining the various interesting objects in the 
museum of Gideon Mantel, Esq. Pare) a Lewes, aE R.S., I trust 
I shall render an acceptable service to many of your readers 
by giving them an outline of its contents. The collection 
consists principally of fossil organic remains, illustrative of the 
geology of Sussex. They are in admirable preservation and 
are very tastefully and judiciously arranged. Many of the 
specimens in this collection are unrivalled and unique ; ; indeed, 
we are entirely indebted to the scientific investigations of Mr. 
Mantell, for the first know ledge of their existence, as well-as 
for the complete proof of the true geological character of the 
strata below the chalk and green sand which occupy the district 
called the Wealds, in the counties of Kent and Sussex. When 
Mr. Mantell first commenced his researches in the vicinity of 
Lewes, no fossil organic remains had been collected there, 
nor had the quarry men noticed them in the beds they were 
daily working, but in the course of a few years, Mr. Mantell, 
succeeded in obtaining the finest collection of chalk fossils in fie 
kingdom: many of them are described in a splendid work 
which he published in 1822, entitled Fossils of the South 
Downs, or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex with Forty- 
two Plates, engraved by Mrs. Mantell, ‘The most important 
