Notice of the Wonders of Geology. 11 



Dr. Mantell's Wonders of Geology will continue to be a favor- 

 ite work equally in the geological schools, in the private study, 

 and in the family parlor. It may be read and understood by any 

 intelligent and educated individual ; its exact science, sound logic, 

 and dignity of style, insure its acceptance with the learned ; its 

 elegance, beauty, and perspicuity, with the polite and refined — 

 and its comprehensive brevity, with the student of the elements 

 of geology. 



There is no hazard in predicting that successive editions will be 

 called for, as fast as the author can revise and prepare them. Al- 

 though arduously engaged in the duties of practical surgery, his 

 position at Clapham Common, six miles from London, is very fa- 

 vorable to constant communication with the learned geologists of 

 the metropolis, and with the geological society ; although we 

 have to regret that the rich fields of research, so assiduously and 

 successfully cultivated by the acute and indefatigable author, in 

 the south-east of England, can be explored by him no more ; and 

 that his profession and position exclude him from acting in the 

 corps of geological pioneers and explorers who, every summer, take 

 up their lines of march through Britain and the continent of Eu- 

 rope, and who occasionally visit Africa, and Asia, and even Ameri- 

 ca. While however, he has done enough to establish a splendid 

 reputation, as an original and successful explorer, we conceive that 

 a post of usefulness is now assigned him of not less importance, 

 although it may be in a more humble sphere. His highly gifted 

 mind, endowed with all the auxiliary sciences, disciplined at once 

 to accuracy and, taste, and prompt to observe and secure every dis- 

 covery and improvement, will vigilantly watch the progress of 

 geology, and j9os^ «7 wj?, as we trust, by such constant revision, 

 that the successive editions of the Wonders, improved, and even 

 enlarged as occasion may require, will continue to reflect, as from 

 a perfect and beautiful mirror, the full face and form of this love- 

 ly and splendid science. 



That the admired author may long have both the ability and 

 the disposition to continue to perform this signal service to man- 

 kind, is our ardent wish and confident hope — sera in coslum as- 

 cendat. 



As many persons who in this country may read the preceding 

 article may not have seen the Wonders of Geology, by Dr. Man- 

 tell, we will now furnish an example of his style and manner, 



