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tlie **ciubono" scliool, wlio are ever despising the first germs of 

 scientific discovery. 



The full and true character of Dean Buckland is not, however, 

 to be measured by reference to his works only, including his 

 records of those extinct Saurians of which he was the great his- 

 torian, or his chief work, the ' Bridge water Treatise,' nor even by 

 his discoveries in a new science. The indelible impression he 

 made upon all who listened to his instructive lectures — lectures like 

 those which may still happily be heard at Cambridge from the lips 

 of his illustrious contemporary, my old friend and coadjutor Sedg- 

 wick — and the general influence he exercised over society by the 

 energetic and telling manner in which he inculcated his doctrines, 

 as founded on observation of the progi'ess of nature from the earliest 

 periods to that icy epoch which preceded the era of his own cavern 

 animals ; these are the appeals which have procured for him a name 

 which will last as. long as the school of British geologists, of which 

 he was so eminent a leader, shall be remembered ! 



In closing these few sentences, which, if I were addressing a 

 kindred Society, might be expanded into a volume descriptive of 

 the merits of one to whom I was sincerely attached, let me add that 

 in his accomplished relict, our lamented member has left behind 

 him a truly intellectual and excellent woman, who, aiding him in 

 several of his most difficult researches, has laboured well in her 

 vocation to render her children worthy of their father's name. 



Dr. Buckland was a member of many European and American 

 Academies, and a Correspondent of the Institute of France. Every 

 where abroad, as at all great British meetings, and in every social 

 party, he was invariably welcomed as the most cheerful and most 

 successful contributor to the advancement of natural knowledge. 



Lieut.-Col. Neil Campbell, who recently died in Paris on his 

 return from Bombay, was an officer on the Quartermaster General's 

 Staff of the East India Company's service, in which he was dis- 

 tinguished for his zeal and intelligence. He was best known 

 to us as the author of the large Military Sketch-map of Scinde. 

 During his stay in this country on leave of absence, he was one 

 of the officers of th« Indian Army who attended the funeral of the 

 Duke of Wellington, and was always a welcome and agreeable 

 attendant at our Club and Evening Meetings. 



Captain Thomas Graves, e.n., who recently fell imder the knife 

 of a Maltese assassin, was the son of a gallant officer of the same 

 name and rank. Entering the navy in 181G, and serving in several 



