PREFACE TO THE FORMER EDITION. IX 



their strenuous and unremitting exertions to prevent 

 the dispersion of my Museum, and to establish it on a 

 permanent basis in my native County. And although 

 their efforts have proved unavailing, a time will as- 

 suredly come, when their endeavours to promote a 

 taste for scientific knowledge among the intelligent 

 inhabitants of Sussex will be duly appreciated, and 

 the failure of the attempt to secure to the County a 

 collection so rich in its peculiar fossil and mineral 

 productions, be remembered with regret. 



At the suggestion of the eminent publisher with 

 whose imprint the work now appears, the Introduction 

 by Professor Silliman, appended to the American, is 

 prefixed to the present edition. 



G. A. M. 



