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Lyell used to tell many amusing stories of the 

 oddities of his old teacher and friend Buckland. In 

 his lectures, both in the University and on public 

 platforms, Buckland would keep his audience in roars 

 of laughter, as he imitated what he thought to be 

 the movements of the iguanodon or megatherium, 

 or, seizing the ends of his long clerical coat-tails, 

 would leap about to show how the pterodactyle flew. 

 Lyell became greatly attached to Buckland, who used 

 to take him privately on geological expeditions. On 

 one of these occasions, they were dining at an inn, 

 where a gentleman at another table became greatly 

 scandalised by Buckland's conversation and manners. 

 The professor, seeing this, became more outrageous 

 than ever, and on parting with Lyell for the night 

 took the candle and placed it between his teeth, so 

 as to illuminate the mouth-cavity exclaiming, ' There 

 Lyell, practise this long enough and you will be able 

 to do it as well as I do/ When Buckland had retired, 

 the stranger revealed himself to Lyell as an old friend 

 of his father's, adding ' I hope you will never be seen 

 in the company of that buffoon again.' ' Oh ! Sir,' 

 said the startled undergraduate, l that is my professor 

 at Oxford ! ' But Buckland did not always originate 

 the fun, for Lyell told me that, when the professor 

 visited Kinnordy in his company, he led him a long 

 tramp under promise of showing him 'diluvium 

 intersected by whin dykes/ and, in the end, pointed 



