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Dawkins, who has written a Preface to the volume before us, 



whatever estimate may be formed of his life and works, it cannot 



be denied that he was one of the makers of modern Oxford, and 



one of the founders of geology. Further on (pp 55-56), writing 



of the traditions of his teaching which he found on going up to 



Oxford in 1857, and on the value and influence of his works, 



particularly his ' Bridgewater Treatise,' and his ' Reliquiae 



Diluvianse,' he observes : — " In my own person, therefore, I can 



speak of the great influence which Dr. Buckland's work has had 



on me. I shall never cease to venerate his name. His books 



still, in my opinion, belong to the classics of geology, although, 



of course, during the last seventy years, the theories as to the 



Deluge, and the doctrine of Final Causes, have changed. The 



facts, however, have not changed ; and for the Reptiles, the 



Stonesfield Mammalia, and the Pentacrinoids, I still use as a 



class-book the last edition of the ' Bridgewater Treatise,' edited 



by Prof. Phillips." 



With this authoritative expression of opinion we may close a 



volume which no young naturalist of the present day should 



neglect to read. It is not only very entertaining, but also highly 



instructive, reminding us, more forcibly than any book which we 



have read for some time past, of the well-known lines of 



Longfellow : — 



" Lives of great men all remind us 

 We can make our lives sublime ; 

 And, departing, leave behind us 



Footprints on the sands of time ; 

 Footprints, that perhaps another, 

 Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 

 A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, 

 Seeing, shall take heart again." 



The allusion in these lines to the " footprints " makes them 

 singularly applicable to the subject of this memoir. 



Allen's Naturalists' Library. Edited by R. B. Sharpe. A Hand- 

 book to the Marsiipialia and Monotremata. By Richard 

 Lydekker. Crown 8vo, pp. i.— xvi; 1 — 302. With 88 

 coloured plates. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1894. 



In a well-written Introduction to this volume, Mr. Lydekker 

 points out the chief features which characterize the Marsupial 



