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sive medical practice, to have effected so much for the advancement 
of science. 
‘** Besides the collection of Sussex Fossils, this museum contains 
: — interesting organic remains from various parts of the world: ” 
“* Mr. M., with much liberality, allows the museum to be seén on 
the first asi third Tuesdays of every month, from one till three, an 
ape: — eae been made by letter. 
Hampstead, S 1829.” 
We learn ‘ai Me. Mantell, that his principal additions since the 
above notices were written, are splendid fishes from the chalk, and 
many gigantic bones of reptiles from Tilgate forest. A fine suite of 
geological specimens of rocks and organic remains, illustrative of all 
the British formations, from the granite to the tertiary inclusive. 
Most beautiful tertiary shells from Palermo, collected and presented 
by the Marquis of Northampton. Many objects of comparative anat- 
omy. Skeletons of Iguana, Monitor, Alligator, &c. 
Mr. Mantell has also received from Dr. Morton and others, many 
specimens of American fossils and minerals, and their identity with 
those of England has been particularly remarked. The mososau- 
rus was an ehabitent both of the old and the new world. 
Mr. Mantell, at the great scientific meeting held at Oxford Uni- 
versity in June, 1832, exhibited the first hippurites that have been 
found in England; they were from the chalk beds near Lewes. He 
shewed also drawings and specimens of the horn, claw, clavicle, os 
ean, femur, bin and fibula of the Iguanodon. 
Tn a mass of grit stone, blown into fifty pieces by the quarrymen, in 
Tilgate forest, Mr. Mantell has recently found many bones, which, 
with great difficulty and labor, he replaced, so as to form a slab four 
and a half by two and a half feet, exhibiting twelve vertebra, eight in 
Place, with many ribs, coracoid bones, omoplates, chevron plates, 
., and several of those curious dermal bones which support the 
scales. In another slab were found some beautiful metacarpal 
bones. In the mass of vegetable matter which enclosed the animal, 
Were found six cropolithes, and many paludine and limones. 
Through the kindness of Mr. Mantell, we have received an inter- 
esting and instructive suite of specimens, illustrative of his museum 
and catalogue. Among them are bones of his Iguanodon, of the 
Megalosaurus of Prof. Buckland, &c. It appears that the vegeta- 
ble remains of the ancient geological periods were exuberant, and 
