450 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
for their gifts, the most remarkable. These qualities made Dr. Buckland 
‘ the most prominent of.a band of philosophers who gradually worked 
their way in geological science, redeeming it from the puerilities of a 
popular hypothesis, and placing it high amongst the physical sciences, 
In this great work Buckland was associated with Lyell, De la Beche, 
Sedgwick, Murchison, Phillips, and Conybeare. 
Although we have now to record the death of Dr. Buckland, which 
Oxford. 
B.A. in 1803, and was elected a Fellow of his College in 1808. At this 
time Oxford was the most unpromising school in the world for natural 
science. Nevertheless there were chairs of Botany, Chemistry, and Min- 
eralogy to indicate to the student that all human wisdom was not und 
up in Classics and Mathematics. The tastes of young Buckland led him 
to the study of Mineralogy, and in 1813 we find him appointed to the 
successors, 
portance of their teach 
. 
Dr. Buckland’s name will ever be associated in this country with his 
discoveries of the remains of animals in the caves of Kirkdale, and other — 
, Tiger, Es 
Cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821.” These discoveries. an 
others served as a basis for a work published in 1823, entitled “ Reliqu#@ 
Diluvianz ; or, Observations on the Organic Remains attesting the Action — 
”  Altho: z of these remains are 
of an Universal Deluge. 
tained a universal recognition of the value and im- 
