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148 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The Wonders ef Geology, in 2 volumes, was an embodiment and 
enlargement of his lectures, and a more instructive and delightful work 
n that science has never been produced. It passed through several 
editions in England ; and an American edition (printed in London) was 
published, prefaced by an introductory discourse intended to adapt the 
work more particularly to this country. 
The Medals of the Creation, also in two volumes, contained a learned 
and instructive synopsis of the fossils of all ages, and was illustrated 
by numerous excellent figures. : 
The Geology of the Isle of Wight, in one volume, gave a full and 
faithful account of that beautiful and remarkable island, replete with 
fossils and containing in its lower strata, limbs, vertebrae and other bones 
of ancient reptiles more colossal than any that had been before dis- 
covered. This work also is fully illustrated. 
Nearly the last of Dr. Mantell’s great labors was a digested account 
of the fossils in the British Museum, with illustrations ; it forms a thick 
volume, and is entitled Peétrifactions and their Teachings. lt is a very 
interesting and instructive guide through the British Museum, and s 
Two thin quartos, amply illustrated (as usual with the author), one 
on the Fossils of Sussex, and the other on the Geology of Leith Hill, 
are gems in geolog 
His Days’ Walk around Lewes, is an excellent guide in that regio, 
both in geology and archeology. On archeology as regards the pr 
of the existence of man in different geological eras, he delivered an 
important lecture before the Archzological Society of Oxford University: 
To the list of Dr. Mantell’s works, we adda handsome quarto nat 
rative of the visit of William IV. and of Queen Adelaide at the ancient 
borough of Lewes, with original poetry and portraits. Also Thooghts 
on Animalcules, and a splendid Pictorial Atlas of fossils, the illustra- 
tions chiefly selected. 
is numerous memoirs, those on the fossil reptiles of the southeast 
of England—on the Belemnite and Belemnoteuthis—and on the Moa, 
the extinct fossil bird of New Zealand, are among the most remarkable. 
He was employed, near the close of his life, in revising the Medals 
of the Creation for a new edition, in which he was remodelling it 8° 
far as to make it almost a new work 
unfinished state, and it is earn ly to be hoped that some scientific 
— equal to the undertaking, will resume the work and ¢ . 
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Dr. Mantell, a number of years ago, sustained a severe injury 2 od 
spine, In consequence of a fall from his carriage, and an incuré dk 
tumor arose, which by its pressure upon the nerves of the spinal ch 
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* His eldest son, Mr. Walter Mantell, living in New Zealand, obtained and seat 
to his father a large collection of the bones of the Moa. 
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