Sussex.

    Mantell ed amateur paleontologist. o ed and observant  in rural Sussex, Mrs. Mantell  for a stroll do  to fill pot—a curved broone,about t. Kno in fossils, and tmigook it to ell could see at once it ootera little study became certain t it  remely large—tens of feet long—and from taceous period.  on allcounts, but t had been seen before or evenimagined.

    A irely upend ood about t, and urgedby al appetite—to proceed ion, Mantell devoted taking years to seeking evidence tosupport  tooto Cuvier in Paris for an opinion, but tFrenc as being from a amus. (Cuvier later apologized eristic error.) One day erian Museum inLondon, Mantell fell into conversation old ootudying, Soutycomparison confirmed tell’s creature became Iguanodon , aftera basking tropical lizard to  in any manner related.

    Mantell prepared a paper for delivery to ty. Unfortunately it emerged tanot a quarry in Oxfords been formallydescribed—by t to work in e.

    It ually suggested to Buckland by his friend Dr.

    James Parkinson, t maybe recalled,  a geologist, and  , for transactions of ty of London , ed t ture’steet attacly to t placed in sockets in t iced to realize  meant:

    Megalosaurus irely neype of creature. So alt demonstrated littleacuity or insig ill t publision of a dinosaur, and so to ell goes t for t line ofbeings.

    Una disappointment o be a continuing feature of ellcontinued ing for fossils—, til  fossilcollection in Britain. Mantell  doctor and equally gift