CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
1784—1808. 
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Early Life—The Valley of the Axe—W. D. Conybeare— 
Winchester—Oxford—Fellow of Corpus College—Ordination 
Poem by Philip Duncan—Buckland’s Collections . . . 1 
CHAPTER II. 
1808—1822. 
Geological Tours in England, Wales, and the Continent, 1808-17— 
“ Paramoudras ”—Geological Maps—Foreign Tour—Italy—- 
Hungary—Roadside Quarries—Reader in Mineralogy, 1813— 
Professor of Geology—Importance of Geology—“ Vindiciae 
Geological ”—Work in Oxford—Expedition to Shotover— 
Buckland’s Lectures—The Smell of Uxbridge—Sir H. Acland’s 
Reminiscences—Conversational Powers—Tour in France, 
1820—Whately’s “Epitaph”—Buckland’s Collections—Cap¬ 
tains Ross and Beechey—Geological Collection at Oxford— 
The Oxford Museum . . *. 11 
CHAPTER III. 
1822—1824. 
il Reliquiae Diluvianse ”—Kirkdale Cave—Hyenas — Conybeare’s 
Caricature—Paviland or Goat Hole—Duncans Verses—Dream 
Lead Mine—Gailenreuth—The Siberian Mammoth—Success 
of “Reliquiae Diluvianse”—Dudley Caverns—Buckland’s Blue 
Bag—First President of the Royal Geological Society, 1824 . 55 
