BUSTS OF GEOLOGISTS. 
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been developed at an early age, for we find him when a youth 
at Winchester College occupied in collecting the chalk fossils of 
the neighbourhood, and on his subsequent removal to the 
University of Oxford the fossils of the oolites enabled him to 
pursue his favourite employment. At Oxford he attended the 
mineralogical lectures of Dr. Kidd, and on that gentleman’s 
resignation in 1813 Buckland was appointed to the vacancy. 
About this time the importance of geological science began to be 
recognised at the university, and in 1819 a special readership in 
geology was endowed, to which Dr. Buckland was advanced. 
His inaugural address on this occasion was afterwards published 
under the title of “ Vindicice Geological 9 or the Connexion of 
Geology with Religion explained.” A few years later he gave 
to the world the interesting results of his original researches on 
bone caverns, in the form of a treatise, entitled “Reliquiae 
JDiluviance, or Observations on the Organic Remains in Caves, 
&c. attesting the action of an universal Deluge.” Some of the 
views there maintained he was subsequently induced to modify, 
as seen in his later work, the admirable Bridgewater treatise on 
■“ Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural 
Theology.” Dr. Buckland’s zeal as a practical geologist, and his 
ability as a writer are seen not only in these larger works, but 
also in the number of valuable papers which he was constantly 
contributing to the Geological Society. Towards the close of 
life, however, his mental activity declined, and after several 
years of retirement from geological pursuits, he expired on the 
14th August 1856, having been Dean of Westminster for eleven 
years. A life of Dr. Buckland has recently been written by his 
daughter, Mrs. Gordon. 
Buckland’s bust stands at the head of the steps leading from 
the Vestibule to 'the Hall, opposite to that of Murchison, and is 
mounted on a column of pink granite from Galway, in Ireland 
(No. 6). 
Professor Sedgwick, LL.D., F.R.S . — Replica of original bust 
by T. Woolner. Presented by the late Mrs. Elizabeth 
Warne. No. 202. 
Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology at Cambridge for more 
than half a century, was the son of the Vicar of Dent, a small 
town in the north-western part of Yorkshire, where he was born 
on March 22nd, 1785. He received his education first at Sed- 
burgh School, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge. 
Having distinguished himself as a high wrangler, he was 
appointed, in 1818, to the Woodwardian Professorship in suc- 
cession to Professor Hailstone. It is the function of the Wood- 
wardian Professor to defend the views held by the founder of 
the chair as to the nature and origin of fossils, but previously to 
Sedgwick’s appointment no systematic lectures on geology had 
been delivered. On receiving the appointment, however, Sedg- 
wick applied himself with characteristic earnestness to the study 
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