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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 

 many interesting organic remains from various parts of the world. 



" Mr. M.J with much liberality, allows the museum to be seen on 

 the 6rst and third Tuesdays of every month, from one till three, ap- 

 plication having previously been made by letter. 



" Harapstead, Sept. 1829." 



We learn from Mr. 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, Stc. 



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 inhabitant 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 

 quadratum, femur, tibia and fibula of the Iguanodon. 



In 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 difilculty and labor, he replaced, so as to form a slab four 

 and a half by two and a half feet, exhibiting twelve vertebras, eight in 

 place, with many ribs, coracoid bones, omoplates, chevron plates, 

 Sic, 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 paludinae 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, he. It appears that the vegeta- 

 ble remains of the ancient geological periods were exuberant, and 



