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the Chair of the Geological Society in 1824 ; and while he held this 

 office, he received, in 1825, a valuable acknowledgement of his esta- 

 blished merit in the gift of a Canonry of Christ Church. A more 

 important event followed, the happy marriage of Mr. Buckland to 

 the excellent lady whose diligent hands and devoted affection shared 

 every toil and lightened every anxiety of his life. 



In the same year appeared, from the united hands of Buckland 

 and Conybeare, the " Survey of the South-western Coal district of 

 England," which even at this day may be consulted as one of the 

 best guides to the geology of the singular country which it describes*. 



In 1826 and 1827, he revisited the Continent to explore parts of 

 France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He then recognized 

 the comparatively late geological date of the great upward move- 

 ment of the Alps"f, and declared some of the highly inclined rocks 

 to be contemporaries of our Lias and Oolite. The Bone Caverns of 

 Lunel and the Grotto d'Oselles then yielded to his strong arms and 

 capacious bags many valuable spoils, now preserved in the Oxford 

 Museum. In the five years ending with 1830, we find him present- 

 ing to the Geological Society ten memoirs relating to Continental 

 geology, and special researches among the fossils of Portland, Lyme 

 Regis and the Mendips, the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Purbeck, and 

 the coast of Weymouth. 



In the latter memoir he was associated with one of his most valued 

 friends, Sir H. T. De la Beche. To this period belong many of those 

 curious researches on Coprolites and fossil Sepise, which attest at 

 once the sagacity and industry of the great explorer of ossiferous 

 caves. In 1832 Dr. Buckland cooperated with Dr. Daubeny and 

 some other of his friends in the preparations for the Meeting of the 

 British Association in Oxford, arid was elected President of that 

 brilliant and important meeting. In 1836 appeared the Bridgewater 

 Treatise, ' Geology and Mineralogy, considered ^with reference to 

 Natural Theology,' 2 vols. 8vo ; a work equally attractive and valua- 

 ble to the student. 



The volumes of the Geological Society subsequent to 1833 contain 

 many valuable notices of the unwearied labours of Dr. Buckland, one 

 of the later and more interesting being a paper on the " Glacio-Dilu- 



* Geol. Trans. 2nd ser. vol. i. f Ann. Phil, new series, i. 4, 450. 



J Geol. Soc. Proc. vol. i. 



