VI 
DEDICATION. 
Whatever other results may have attended 
my public exertions in this place, I assure 
you that it is a source of much satisfaction 
to me, to find them thus rewarded by the 
approbation of a Philosopher, whose attain- 
ments placed him in the chair once occupied 
by Newton, and who is endeared by his 
urbanity to all, who have ever enjoyed the 
happiness of communication with him, either 
as the President of the Royal Society of 
London, or in that more familiar intercourse 
of private friendship to which it has been 
my privilege to be admitted. 
Believe me to remain. 
My dear Sir, 
Your much obliged and faithful Servant, 
William Buckland. 
Christ Church, Oxford 
May 30, 1836. 
