Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Cretaceous Fossils in the Brighton Museum
This Collection of Sussex Chalk Fossils is the result of the loving labour of the leisure hours of ten years.
My love of Natural History was directed into this channel through the casual acquaintance (when quite a boy) of the late gideon mantell, esq., LL.D. When, in 1841, I came to live at Brighton, I found that his valuable and interesting Collection had been removed to the British Museum.
While the great Natural Storehouse of extinct Animal Forms still remained, the Fossils daily discovered in the large Chalk Quarries round Lewes were destroyed as worthless, because there was no one to care for them.
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