ADAM SEDGWICK AND WILLIAM BUCKLAND. 
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For many years he constantly referred to his sense of increasing 
infirmities of age, and declared that they would compel him to resign 
his professorship. Nevertheless, being convinced by his friends that 
his resignation would be injurious to the cause of science in the 
University of Cambridge, he continued to occupy the chair until his 
death, which took place on the 27th of January, 1873, in his rooms 
in Trinity College, and when he was within six weeks of completing 
his 88th year. 
" Professor Sedg^'ick's was a nature charged to the full with 
human sympathy. Bring joy near him and he rejoiced ; bring sorrow 
before him and his pity overflowed in consolation. Out of the fulness 
of his heart his mouth spoke unmeasured, unpremeditated words of 
gladness or of sympathy, and though the friends of his youth passed 
away as shadows, he ever gathered round him the young and happy 
and caught some of their life. Full of interest in all that was going 
on around him, the brave old man died in harness, and in 1873 was 
buried with the great men among whose memories he had so long 
lived. A simple ' A. S.' marks the spot where his body was laid in 
the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge." (Professor Hughes.) 
At Dent, his native place, his memory is held dear. A huge 
unhewn mass of granite has been erected in the centre of the village 
to his memory, marked with the single words " Adam Sedgwick." 
William Buckland. 
William Buckland was born at Axminster, March 12th, 1784. 
After spending some time at the ancient Grammar School at Tiverton, 
in 1798 he entered St. Mary's College, Winchester, and in 1801 
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as a scholar on the Exeter foundation. 
He attended the lectures of Dr. Kidd, Professor of Mineralogy, and 
manifested a strong bias towards the study of natural history and 
geology. He was associated in his researches with Mr. Broderip, 
and acquired much knowledge from the Rev. J. Townend, the friend 
of William Smith. He afterwards made long excursions on horse- 
back throughout the gi-eater part of the South-west of England, and 
collected large quantities of fossils. In 1813, on the resignation of 
Dr. Kidd, he was appointed Professor of Mineralogj' at Oxford. 
