ADAM SEDGWICK AND WILLIAM BUCKLAND. 
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Museum, in which, as well as the Museum of Practical Geology, in 
Jermyn Street, he had for several years taken a keen interest. In 
1845 he was appointed, on the recommendation of Sir Robert Peel, 
to the Deanery of Westminster, a position he held to the time of 
his death. 
Dr. Buckland influenced the progress of Geological Science, not 
only by his writings, but still more, probably, by the inimitable lec- 
tures which he gave at Oxford. He combined a most playful fancy 
with the most profound wisdom, and roused an amount of enthusiasm 
in his students, which made them speedy converts to his science, and 
enthusiastic workers in after years. Murchison thus describes a visit 
to Dr. Buckland at Oxford. " On repairing from the Star Inn to 
Buckland's domicile, I never can forget the scene which awaited me. 
Having by direction of the Janitor climbed up a narrow staircase, I 
entered a long corridor-like room (now all destroyed), which was 
filled with rocks, shells, and bones in dire confusion, and in a sort of 
sanctum at the end w^as my friend in his black gown, looking like a 
necromancer, sitting on the one only rickety chair not covered with 
fossils, and cleaning out a fossil bone from the matrix." 
In 1814, in company with Mr. Greenough, Dr. Buckland visited 
an insulated group of rocks of Slate and Greenstone, in Cumberland 
and Westmoreland, on the east side of Appleby. These rocks encircle 
two beds of granite, which differ from that of Shap Fell ; on the east 
side Old Red Sandstone is interposed between the Slates and the 
Mountain Limestone of Cross Fell ; but on the west there are evidences 
of considerable disturbance. The thick beds of Limestone and Red 
Sandstone of the east are absent, and the Red Sandstone of the plain 
of Carlisle is in juxtaposition, except in a few places, with the Green- 
stones and Slates, or against the truncated extremities of the Lower 
Limestone. The result of his investigations was, that the Carlisle 
Red Sandstone was proved to be the same with that of the plains of 
Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and is geologically a deposit 
more recent than the Magnesian Limestone which is incumbent on 
the upper strata of the principal coal-fields. 
In 1816 he described the curious bodies which are so common 
in the chalk of the East Riding of Yorkshire, know^n under the name 
* Life of MurchiBon, by Geikie, vol. i., p. 125. 
