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was sound, but broken off 8 feet from its base; its circumference at 
the lower end was 26% inches, at the upper 164. Two of the molars 
14 Ib 
Seales and knobs, which were all taken from the gangue ; also in white 
quartz and in ferruginous quartz more or less covered with the red 
oxyd of iron, associated with galena and copper iron pyrites. 
OBITUARY. 
_Gmeon AtcERNon ManTELL, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c., died at 
his residence in Chester Square, London, November 10th, aged, we 
believe, about sixty-four. 
Ofien, during our editorial career of thirty-four years, have we been 
called to the painful duty of recording the death of men, coadjutors 
With us in the cause of science, and of not a few with whom we have 
been connected by ties of personal friendship; but never have we 
been so painfully surprised, as by the recent announcement of the sud- 
den eath of the eminent and excellent man named above. 
irly years ago, his splendid. quarto of 320 pages, with 43 plates, 
devoted to the geology of Sussex, his native county in England, made 
8 appearance. It was followed, at the end of five ears, by a thinner 
quarto, equally a finished production, with 21 plates illustrative of the 
geology of the southeast of England, including Sussex and Tilgate 
forest. These original works, abounding with interesting and instruc- 
tive observations, established the author’s reputation throughout Europe 
“8 an able geologist, and as an acute and successful expositor. 
The scene of his personal researches ‘in geology, commencing at 
Lewes, his native town, extended from London and its vicinity to 
Brighton on the English channel, and from Dover to the Isle of Portland, 
including Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and never was a geological 
ing sed advantage of a noble presence, with a voice of great power and 
a 
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His Well deserved celebrity insured on the part of the public a welcome 
i course of a few 
en 108 to several important works, which, in the course 
Years, he wrote and published. 
