1V DEDICATION. 



That you may long be spared for the advance- 

 ment of the Sciences you have so successfully 

 cultivated and promoted — and for the benefit of 

 your countrymen whose national character your 

 labours have so greatly contributed to elevate and 

 refine — and for the delight of a large domestic 

 circle by whom you are alike respected and 

 beloved — is the fervent prayer of 



Your much attached friend, 



Gideon Algernon Mantell. 



19, Chester Square, Pimlico; 

 London j Jan. 1848. 



