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now accounted for on a different theory, the great value of this work 
remains as a record of the first discovery of the remains of animals — 
of which most have since disappeared from the world, and thus reveal- 
ing 
the arrival of man. In addition to the above account of the bones of 
mel, near Montpellier, and the bones of bears found in the Grotto of 
Osselles, or Quingey, near Besangon. 
His contributions to the Proceedings of the Geological Society were 
very numerous, and in the first volume of the “Bibliographia Geolo- 
gie et Zoologiz,” published by the Ray Society in 1848, we find referen- 
ces to sixty-one distinct works and memoirs. Dr. Buckland’s social habits 
pe pr ite 
and many of the general conclusions arrived at by the author have now 
become part and parcel of the great laws of geological scie 
nce, 
In 1825 Dr. Buckland accepted from his college the living of Stoke 
a i a 
Morland, of Abingdon. In 1818 he had been elected a Fellow of the 
Was twice elected President of that body. He took an active mterest in 
the formation of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 
and was f those who took the bold step of inviting this body to 
hold its second meeting in the University of Oxford. On this occasion 
he was President of the Association. From that time to 1848 he was 
present at the meetings, and read many of his papers before them. 
In 1847 Dr. Buckland was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum, 
: _ and took an active part in the development of that department more es- 
pecially devoted to Geology and Paleontology. He also seconded, to 
the Ssasnt of his power, ah efforts of Sir Henry De la Beche to estab- 
lish the Museum of Economic Geology, which is now, in conjunction 
for the public to the Monuments in Westminster Abbey. He joined the 
