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	Gideon Mantell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mantell was born in Lewes, Sussex, the son of a shoemaker.
		Mantell was still convinced that the teeth had come from the Mesozoic strata and finally recognized that they resembled those of the iguana, but were twenty times larger.
		Mantell suffered a terrible carriage accident on Clapham Common, in 1841 and was left with a debilitating spinal injury.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon_Mantell (1185 words)

	Rocky Road: Gideon Mantell
		Legend has it that while the country doctor Gideon Mantell was visiting a patient, his wife Mary Ann took a short stroll as she waited for him, and when Mantell finished his house call, she presented him with a puzzling tooth.
		Mantell was confident that it came from Mesozoic strata, and there were no Mesozoic mammals known to science in the early 1820s.
		Mantell was soon elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and made an honorary member of the Institute of Paris.
	www.strangescience.net /mantell.htm (1290 words)

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		The original specimen, improved by Gideon Mantell in 1832 from the Tilgate Forest in the south of England in 1832, now resides in the Natural History Museum of London, where it is still covered in the limestone block in which it was found.
		Mantell published a lithograph of his find in The Geology of the South-east of England in 1833; and another sketch in the fourth edition of The Wonders of Geology, in 1840.
		Gideon Mantell at first claimed the name Hylaeosaurus meant "forest lizard", after the Tilgate Forest in which it was discovered.
	www.rareresource.com /hylaeosaurus.htm (600 words)

	Science Musings by Chet Raymo
		Mantell is presumably the person at right, standing behind a vertical slab of sandstone etched with a fossil fern.
		Whatever the theological differences between Lyell and Mantell, on the one hand, and Buckland, on the other, it is clear that the story of the past will ultimately depend upon the evidence of the fossiliferous strata and not upon the authority and tradition represented by the distant church spire.
		Mantell's journal entry for May 21, 1831, recounts expedition he made with Lyell to another nearby quarry at Horsham, where the two fossilists happily examined slabs of ancient sandstone covered with ripple marks.
	www.sciencemusings.com /2005/07/mind-being-but-too-apt.html (748 words)

	Gideon Algernon Mantell - LoveToKnow 1911
		GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL (1790-1852), English geologist and palaeontologist, was born in 1790 at Lewes, Sussex.
		His eldest son, Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell (1820-1895), settled in New Zealand, and there attained high public positions, eventually being secretary for Crown-lands.
		In addition to the works above mentioned Dr Mantell was author of Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex (4to, 1827); Geology of the South-east of Englandr(1833); The Wonders of Geology, 2 vols.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gideon_Algernon_Mantell (340 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Gideon Mantell, a medical practitioner, was also a prominent palaeontologist and geologist, who was in touch with the leading savants of his day.
		Mantell himself, in October 1851, became commissioner of Crown lands for the Southern District of the Province of New Munster, with responsibility for the settlement of Europeans on the lands purchased from the Maori.
		Mantell was becoming preoccupied by a concern that was to haunt his conscience and affect his career for the rest of his life: the non-fulfilment of promises he and others had made to Ngai Tahu at the time of the original land purchases.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1M11&QuickSearch=true (1696 words)

	In 1822 Gideon Mantell discovered
		In 1822 Gideon Mantell, a doctor from Lewes, East Sussex, described a fossil tooth which his wife had found by the side of the road in Cuckfield, West Sussex.
		Mantells early drawings of Iguanodon are based largely on this evidence, and are quite inaccurate.
		The 'horn', found by Mantell's wife, resembled a rhinoceros horn and prompted Mantell to presume that it was from the creature's snout, especially as that is where a spike is found on an iguana.
	www.visit.maidstone.btinternet.co.uk /Iguanodon.htm (320 words)

	Iguanodon
		Mantell was a medical doctor, and also an ardent amateur geologist and fossil collector.
		Mantell realized that Mary Anne had found something new to science, and he later wrote a scientific description of the animal using other teeth and bones that had been discovered.
		Mantell had discovered a peculiar bone that he thought must be a short horn that he placed on Iguanodon's snout, this was later discovered to be its "thumb".
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/paleontology/40595 (444 words)

	SVPCA 2000 - Field Trip - Dean William Buckland (b. 1784, d. 1856)
		However, like Buckland, Mantell did not know his new animal as a dinosaur, for the term was not invented for another 16 years.
		Later, Mantell (1825) went on to describe this and other teeth, as well as numerous bones, obtained from strata in the Tilgate Forest of the Weald of Sussex and from around the village of Cuckfield.
		Mantell wrote several books on geology and palaeontology, including Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire (Mantell 1854).
	www.svpca.org /years/2000_portsmouth/fieldtrip.2.mantell.html (306 words)

	timelinescience - discovering dinosaurs (Mantell) - resources
		As Gideon mantel became increasingly successful as a doctor they moved to a large and pleasant house - only for many of the rooms to be immediately filled with fossils!
		Gideon Mantell was very successful as a doctor and increasingly well known as a geologist.
		By the time their fourth child was born Mary was reaching the end of her tether, as Gideon was always wrapped up in excavating or exhibiting his fossils.
	www.timelinescience.org /resource/students/dinos/mantell.htm (473 words)

	Dino Land Book Reviews: Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs
		Gideon's fascinations with fossils became stirred at the age of 12 or 13, when he found an ammonite "curiosity" at a stream outcrop.
		Yes, Gideon Mantell may be ranked as one of the earliest "paleoartists".) Their separation takes the reader by surprise, as it is not foreshadowed by any difficulty in relationship.
		Iguanodon was Mantell's dinosaur, really the first dinosaur to be described by any man with a sense of accuracy and diligence, although this description steadily evolved over a quarter of a century until Gideon's untimely death in 1852.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/8152/mantellreview.html (2011 words)

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		Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) was a British physician and natural historian.
		Mantell spent more time at England's universities and museums, and in correspondence with the leading scientists of the day (including Buckland and Cuvier), in search of an answer to the riddle his fossils posed.
		Mantell reconstructed Iguanodon as a four-legged lizard-like animal as depicted in his sketch figured at the left.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /geology/chamber/mantell.html (512 words)

	Mantell's Iguanodon Teeth, 1825 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gideon Mantell, a physician of Lewes in Sussex in southern England, had for years been collecting fossils in the sandstone of Tilgate forest, and he had discovered bones belonging to three extinct species: a giant crocodile, a plesiosaur, and Buckland's Megalosaurus.
		After consulting numerous experts, Mantell finally recognized that the teeth bore an uncanny resemblance to the teeth of the living iguana, except that they were twenty times larger.
		The traditional story that Mantell's wife found the first teeth in 1822, while the doctor was visiting a patient, appears, alas, to be unfounded.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/dino/man1825.htm (192 words)

	Scientific American: Dinos and Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gideon Mantell, a shoemaker's son turned doctor, discovered the first dinosaur; he thought dinosaurs would make him rich, but they ultimately destroyed his life.
		For Cadbury, Gideon Mantell is the tragic hero of the early days of dinosaur hunting.
		It was Owen, not Mantell, who in 1838 was appointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science to survey the giant extinct reptiles of England.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00004A0E-030B-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21 (1101 words)

	Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gideon Mantell, a naturalist who uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry, also became obsessed with the ancient past, risking everything to promote his vision of the lost world of reptiles.
		Mantell waited years before the eminent Baron Cuvier in Paris agreed that he had found the remains of a huge herbivorous land reptile (reversing his earlier opinion that the fossil was mammalian).
		His comeuppance (and the recognition of Mantell's true worth) was the result of both his egregious behavior and his being on the wrong (creationist) side of the evolutionary debate as the scientific tide turned to Darwinian theory.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0805067728.html (2953 words)

	Mantell Gideon A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the area around Lewes, the South Downs, is rich in Cretaceous deposits, fossil hunting was something of a local pastime and Mantell began collecting fossils in his schooldays.
		Mantell bought the remains for £ 25 to make, as the joke went, "a famous Mantel-piece." Mantell also discovered, in 1832, the first armored dinosaur, Hylaeosaurus.
		Mantell described his work in his 67 books and memoirs.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Mantell/1.html (342 words)

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		The Iguanodon Tooth, described by Sussex country doctor Gideon Mantell in the 1820s, was the first fossil from a dinosaur - or “terrible lizard” - to be recognised as such.
		Mantell eventually gained the recognition he deserved, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and receiving its highest medal.
		After Mantell died his fossils were passed on to his son Walter, who had moved to New Zealand in 1839.
	www.rsnz.org /topics/biol/dna50/breakfast.php (643 words)

	Gideon Mantell - Wikipedia
		Gideon Mantell wurde in Lewes, Sussex geboren und verbrachte die Zeit, die ihm seine Arztpraxis ließ, mit geologischen Forschungen.
		Mantell dagegen war sich sicher, dass die Zähne aus dem Mesozoikum stammten und dass sie denen eines Leguans (Iguana) ähnelten, nur dass dieses Tier 20 mal so groß war.
		Der heftigste Widerspruch, den Mantells Ansichten entgegen gebracht wurde, kam von dem hochangesehenen Wissenschaftler Richard Owen, der vehement die Ansicht vertrat, dass diese Zähne nur von einem Säugetier stammen könnten.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon_Mantell (513 words)

	Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mantell’s teeth were ten times bigger and he calculated they had belonged to a creature 40 feet long which he called an iguandon.
		Mantell moved to Old Steine in 1833 and opened his collection of fossils to the public, attracting thousands of visitors.
		Mantell moved to London and died in 1852 aged 62.
	www.buses.co.uk /history/fleethist/609gm.htm (239 words)

	Alwynne B. Beaudoin - Chronology of Events in Earth Sciences History
		Gideon Mantell, the avocational palaeontologist who first described Iguanodon, was born in Lewes, Sussex, England.
		Gideon Mantell is admitted as a member of the Royal Society, London, largely on the basis of his research on Iguanodon fossils.
		Gideon Mantell read a further paper on Iguanodon before the Royal Society, presenting his conclusions from examination of a recently-found partial lower jaw.
	www.scirpus.ca /reading/earthsci_chron.htm (4328 words)

	Amazon.com: Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs: Books: Dennis R. Dean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Algernon Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) was primarily a country doctor who also seriously "dabbled" in fossils.
		Largely, Mantell has been relegated to an "also-ran" in the story of how the dinosaurs were first discovered and then invented as a special group of extinct reptiles by British scientists in the early decades of the 19th century.
		The intricacies of the plot and the characters are worthy of Charles Dickens.
	www.amazon.com /Gideon-Mantell-Discovery-Dinosaurs-Dennis/dp/0521420482 (1702 words)

	Book Review: The Dinosaur Hunters
		Cadbury focuses on the rivalry between Dr. Gideon Mantell and Sir Richard Owen.
		Mantell's busy life as a country doctor and lack of social standing made it difficult for him to gain acceptance and respect in the scientific community, despite his groundbreaking work on both Megalosaurus and Iguanodon.
		Mantell objected to this treatment by Mantell, "in all fairness, it should have been mentioned that the first reference to the teeth in question to the Hylaeosaurus was made by me four years ago," wrote Mantell to the Literary Gazette about Owen's criticisms.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4003/96301 (405 words)

	The geology of the south-east of England. : Mantell, (Gideon Algernon)
		Yet Mantell's paper on his new creature, given before the Geological Society in December, identified it correctly.
		Gideon's paper on Hylaeosaurus, withheld by him on Charles Lyell's advice, surfaced not in a learned journal but as one chapter [chap.
		Appearing the year after Cuvier had died, it is somewhat more uniformitarian in outlook than either of Gideon's earlier works, clearly reflecting the influence of Lyell.
	www.maggs.com /title/NH41234.asp (218 words)

	Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs - Cambridge University Press
		$75.00 (C) Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in a generation--of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar.
		Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era.
		"This engaging historical account of Gideon Mantell's career in paleontology is one of the finest scientific biographies to come along in recent years...richly laden with details and tidbits of information...your knowledge of dinosaur science will be stranded in the land of 'myth' unless you have this valuable reference." Dinosaur World
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521420482 (380 words)

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