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Geology, then first established by the Government in accordance 

 with his strenuous recommendations. His lectures on both these 

 subjects, but especially on geology, attracted in a high degree the 

 attention and admiration of the University, and speedily obtained 

 for him a position among the most eminent and active of the 

 inquirers into the physical history of the earth. His Introductory 

 Lecture, as Eeader of Geology, was published in 1820, under the 

 title of " Vindicise Geologiae, or the Connexion of Geology with 

 Beligion Explained"; and his first important paper "On the 

 Coasts of the North of Ireland," written in conjunction with the 

 E/Cv. W. D. Conybeare, was published in the third volume of the 

 Transactions of the Geological Society.' His reputation as a geo- 

 logist was, however, still more completely established by his " Ac- 

 count of an Assemblage of Fossil Teeth and Bones of the Elephant, 

 Ehinoceros, Hippopotamus, Bear, Tiger, Hyaena, &c., discovered 

 in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire," which was printed in the ' Philo- 

 sophical Tranactions ' for 1822, and was in the same year rewarded 

 with the Copley Medal. This celebrated paper, enlarged and 

 published separately in 1823, under the title of " Reliquise Dilu- 

 vianae," forms an important epoch in the history of geological 

 science. It is needless to particularize the titles of his numerous 

 memoirs which succeeded each other in rapid succession in the 

 ' Transactions ' and ' Proceedings ' of the Geological Society, in 

 the ' Annals of Philosophy,' the ' Philosophical Magazine,' the 

 * Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,' the ' Reports of the British 

 Association,' &c. The list of his publications in the ' Bibliographia 

 Zoologiae et Geologise' of the Ray Society amounts to sixty-seven. 

 It W'Ould be improper, however, to omit noticing here his sole 

 contribution to our own ' Transactions,' a paper " On the Adap- 

 tation of the Structure of the Sloths to their peculiar mode of life," 

 printed in our seventeenth volume ; and his Bridgewater Treatise, 

 entitled " Geology and Mineralogy considered, in reference to 

 Natural Theology," 2 vols. 8vo. 1836, a work distinguished at 

 once for the multitude of facts brought to bear upon its subject, 

 and for the attractive manner in which they are placed before the 

 reader. Dr. Buckland became a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 in 1813, of the Eoyal Society in 1818, of the Linnean Society in 

 1821, and received diplomas from a great number of scientific 

 societies both at home and abroad, among which was that of a 

 Correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of 

 France. He was elected President of the Geological Society in 

 1824, and again in 1840 ; and was also President of the British 



