| Ref No | LDGSL/947/7/4 |
| Title | [Outlines of the Mineral Geography of the Environs of Lewes] |
| Date | [?Feb 1817] |
| Date Note | wmk 1813, information from Dean (1999), p34. |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 19pp in volume |
| Format | Document |
| Description | [Outlines of the Mineral Geography of the Environs of Lewes], by Gideon Algernon MANTELL, [?February 1817], manuscript draft of a proposed published work comprising a description of the main strata of the area, with listings of the fossils found therein. Includes ten pages of hand coloured mss sections and depictions of fossils by Mantell. Item has been bound with a short mss note by Charles Davis Sherborn dated 17 October 1889 briefly correlating some of the fossil illustrations with figures from Mantell's other publications or with the specimens in the British Museum [which had purchased Mantell's collection in 1838].
Bound with five printed tracts on palaeontology in German and French from George Bellas Greenough's library, comprising:
1) Schmidel, Casimir Christoph, 'Vorstellung einiger merkwurdigen Versteinerungen mit kürzen Anmerkungen' (1780)
2) Buch, Leopold von, 'Ueber Ammoniten, über ihre Sonderung in Familien, über die Arten, welche in den älteren Gebirgsschichten vorkommen, und über Goniatiten insbesondere' (1832).
3) Berendt, George Carl, 'Die Insekten im Bernstein; ein Beitrag zur Thiergeschichte der Vorwelt. Heft I.' (1830)
4) Borson, Stefano, 'Notice sur quelques fossiles de la Tarantaise en Savoie' (1829)
5) Waldin, Johann Gottlieb, 'Die Frankenberger-Versteinerungen, nebst ihren Ursprunge' (1778). |
| Administrative History | One of three drafts outlining Gideon Mantell's plans for producing a catalogue of Sussex fossils. This draft was sent to George Bellas Greenough in c.February 1817, the other drafts were sent to Etheldred Benett and James Sowerby. [Source: Dean (1999), p34] |
| CustodialHistory | Modern binding has trimmed the lower edge of the mss, cutting off some of the text. Previously catalogued as 'Of the strata in the vicinity of Lewes' and 'On the chalk of Sussex'. |
| Provenance | Greenough bequest |
| Access Conditions | Access is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information. |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | One of the sections 'Strata at Castle Hill near Newhaven' is published as the frontispiece to Mantell's 'Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the geology of Sussex' (1822). |
| ArchNote | Description by John Thackray, revised by Caroline Lam. Source: Dean, D R, 'Gideon Mantell and the discovery of dinosaurs', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
| CreatorName | MANTELL | Gideon Algernon | 1790-1852 | surgeon and geologist |
| SHERBORN | Charles Davies | 1861-1942 | geologist and scientific bibliographer |
| Subject | Stratigraphy |
| Biostratigraphy |
| Previous reference | LDGSL/997 |