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successor at Oxford, and by Howorth, some fifty years 
afterwards. 
In concluding these remarks I would remind the reader 
that Buckland belongs to the heroic age, when Natural 
Science was young, and that he belongs to a type of man 
now extinct. 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 the science of Geology. 
W. Boyd Dawkins. 
Owens College, Manchester, 
September 22 nd, 1894. 
