Gideon Mantell

Gideon Algernon Mantell (Lewes in oppido natus die 3 Februarii 1790; mortuus Londinii die 10 Novembris 1852) fuit chirurgus et palaeontologus. Filius sutoris Methodistae, propter religionem e scholis publicis exclusus, privatim in oppido nativo et apud patruum Westburiae educatus est. Tiro apud chirurgum hanc artem didiscit. Magister anno 1811 apud Regium Collegium Chirurgorum receptus, ipse chirurgus ab eodem anno Lewes in oppido, ab 1833 Brightoniae, ab 1838 in suburbio Londiniensi Clapham operam dedit.

Puer iuvenisque mineralia et fossilia quaesitabat. De geologia aevi praesertim Cretacei comitatuum Sussexiae et Surregiae, de palaeontologia animalium exstinctorum eiusdem aevi libros et symbola composuit museumque fossilium apud se congerebat. Opus huius generis primum, The Fossils of the South Downs (1822) sub patronatu regio prodit. Necessitate tam otii quam pecuniarum semper vexatus, collectum palaeontologicum anno 1838 Museo Britannico vendidit.

Genera et species palaeontologicas, quas alii eruditi mox sub dinosauriis ordinaturi erant, ille primus descripsit: Iguanodon (1825), Mosasaurus hoffmanni (1829 p. 207, cf. 1822 pp. 242-246),^[1] Hylaeosaurus armatus (1833),^[2] Regnosaurus northamptoni (1848 (a)),^[3] Pelorosaurus (1850 (a)).

Scripta

Iguanodon: dentes a Gideone Mantell descripti (1825 tab. 14)

Pelorosaurus conybeari: humerus a Gideone Mantell descriptus (1850 (a) tab. 21)

Leptopleuron lacertinum, a Gideone Mantell sub synonymo Telerpeton elginense descriptum (1852 (cum Brickenden) tab. 4)

Libri

1822 : The fossils of the South Downs, or Illustrations of the geology of Sussex Textus apud Internet Archive
1831 : A narrative of the visit of their most gracious Majesties William IV and Queen Adelaide to the ancient borough of Lewes Textus apud Internet Archive
1833 : The geology of the South-East of England Textus apud Internet Archive
1838 : The wonders of geology, or A familiar exposition of geological phenomena vol. 1 vol. 2
1844 : The medals of creation, or First lessons in geology, and in the study of organic remains Vol. 1-2 apud Hathi Trust
- 2a ed. 1854 (editore T. Rupert Jones) : The medals of creation, or First lessons in geology, and the study of organic remains vol. 1 vol. 2
1845 (sine nomine auctoris) : Memoirs of the life of a country surgeon Textus apud Internet Archive
1846 : Thoughts on animalcules, or A glimpse of the invisible world revealed by the microscope Textus apud Internet Archive
- 2a ed., 1850 : The invisible world revealed by the microscope, or Thoughts on animalcules Textus apud Internet Archive
1847 : Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire Textus apud Internet Archive
1849 : Thoughts on a pebble; or, A first lesson in geology Textus apud Internet Archive
1850 : A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world" and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology" Textus apud Internet Archive
1850 (auctore principali E. W. Brayley) : A topographical history of Surrey vol. 1 vol. 2 vol. 3 vol. 4 vol. 5
1851 : Petrifactions and their teachings, or A hand-book to the gallery of organic remains of the British Museum Textus apud Internet Archive

Symbola selecta

1824 : "Outlines of the natural history of the environs of Lewes" in Thomas Walker Horsfield, The History and Antiquities of Lewes and Its Vicinity vol. 1 appendix
1825 : "Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered fossil reptile, from the sandstone of Tilgate Forest in Sussex" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London vol. 115 (1825)
1829 : "A tabular arrangement of the organic remains of the county of Sussex" in Transactions of the Geological Society of London nova ser. vol. 3 fasc. 1 pp. 201-216
1831 : "The Geological Age of Reptiles" in Edinburgh new philosophical journal vol. 11 (Apr.-Sept. 1831) pp. 181-185
1845 : "Notes of a microscopical examination of the chalk and flint of the South-east of England; with remarks on the animalculites of certain tertiary and modern deposits" in Annals And Magazine of Natural History vol. 16
1848 (a) : "On the structure of the jaws and teeth of the Iguanodon" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1848 pars 2)
1848 : "On the fossil remains of birds collected in New Zealand by Walter Mantell, Esq., of Wellington" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London no. 15
1849 : "Observations on the osteology of the Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1849 pars 2)
1850 (a) : "On the pelorosaurus, an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile whose remains are associated with those of the iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1850 pars 2)
1850 : "Supplementary observations on the structure of the Belemnite and Belemnoteuthis" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1850 pars 2)
1850 : "On a dorsal dermal spine of the hylaeosaurus, recently discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1850 pars 2)
1850 : "Notice of the discovery by Mr Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis" in Proceedings of the Zoological Society no. 214
1852 (cum Lambart Brickenden) : "On the fossil remains of reptiles, and on chelonian foot-tracks, from the Devonian strata of Morayshire" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. 8
1852 : "On the structure of the iguanodon, and on the fauna and flora of the Wealden formation" in Notices of the Meetings of the Royal Institution
1852 : "A few notes on the structure of the Belemnite" in Annals And Magazine of Natural History

Notae

↑ "†Mosasaurus hoffmanni Mantell 1829 (mosasaur)" apud Fossilworks; Earle E. Spamer, Edward Daeschler, L. Gay Vostreys-Shapiro, A Study of Fossil Vertebrate Types in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1995) (pp. 128-129 apud Google Books)
↑ "Mantell and the Armored Dinosaurs" apud BHL Blog
↑ "†Regnosaurus northamptoni Mantell 1848 (ornithischian)" apud Fossilworks

Bibliographia

Thomas George Bonney, "Mantell, Gideon Algernon" in Dictionary of National Biography edd. Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee. 63 voll., 3 voll. suppl. (Londinii, 1885-1901 ~)
Eric Buffetaut, "Mantell, Cuvier, Buckland and the identification of Iguanodon: a contribution based on unpublished annotations by Mantell" in Oryctos vol. 2 (1999) pp. 101-109
E. Cecil Curwen, ed., The journal of Gideon Mantell, surgeon and geologist, covering the years 1818-1852. Londinii: Oxford University Press, 1940
Dennis R. Dean, "A bicentenary retrospective on Gideon Algernon Mantell, 1790–1852" in Journal of Geological Education vol. 30 (1990) pp. 434–43
Dennis R. Dean, Gideon Algernon Mantell: a bibliography with supplementary essays. Delmar Novi Eboraci, 1998
Dennis R. Dean, Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-42048-2 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
Dennis R. Dean, "Mantell, Gideon Algernon" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis
P. Taquet, "Cuvier-Buckland-Mantell et les dinosaures" in E. Buffetaut, J. M. Mazin, E. Salmon, edd., Actes du symposium paléontologique Georges Cuvier [Montbeliard, 1982] (1983) pp. 475–94
T. G. Vallance, "Gideon Mantell, 1790–1852: a focus for study in the history of geology at the Turnbull Library" in Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin vol. 21 (1984) pp. 91–100
Rob Walker, "Gideon Mantell: forgotten man who discovered the dinosaurs" in The Guardian (3 Februarii 2019)