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of friendship. His essays, however, for the most part saw the 
light in the Transactions of the Dorset Nat. Hist. and Antiquarian 
Field Club, a flourishing institution which owed its existence In 
and a masterly survey of current geological progress and discovery, 
as well as with important monographs on the Dorset Trigonie, and 
on the Fossil Reptiles of the county, and descriptions of his own 
discoveries. 
To the County Museum at Dorchester Mr. Mansel-Pleydell was 
a life-long contributor. One of its principal founders, he deposite 
in its keeping most of his geological finds, and the results of his 
archeological researches and investigations; and he leaves it by 
will his extensive British and European herbaria. 
t might be supposed that a country gentleman who followed 
his varied tastes in Natural History so keenly, a student in several 
of its branches and an author in most of those he studied, would 
have found little leisure and less inclination for the manifold duties 
that the Church, the county, and a large estate look for from men 
in his position. The owner of an extensive domain, lord of the 
manor in three parishes, he lived an unselfish and unostentatious 
life, devoting large sums to the improvement of his estates, which 
are models of order; whilst in the face of poor returns he spen 
The immense respect in which he was held was reflected in_the 
great concourse of people who gathered in the churchyard at 
