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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER IV. 
1825—1830. 
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Living of Stoke Charity—Canon of Christ Church, July 1825— 
Lee’s Benefaction—Toads in Stones—Marriage, December 
31st, 1825—Wedding Tour, 1826—With Cuvier in Paris—Santa 
Rosalia—Caverns in France—Life at Christ Church—Family 
Life—Home Life in Oxford—Poor Jews—Oxford Castle— 
Sundays in Oxford—Visit to Lyme—Miss Anning, the Geologist 
--“Duria Antiquior” ........ 87 
CHAPTER V. 
1831—1841. 
The British Association at Oxford, 1832—Sir Philip Egerton— 
Ladies and the British Association—Memorial to Cuvier— 
Awful Changes—The Megatherium—Teeth of Megatherium— 
Dr. Buckland s Address—British Association at Bristol, 1836 
—Professor Agassiz—Agassiz and Buckland—Glaciers—Gla¬ 
cial Theories—The Costume of the Glacier—Archbishop Vernon 
Harcourt—The Queen at Nuneham—Royal Visit to Oxford, 
1841—Prince Albert at St. John’s College . . . .120 
CHAPTER VI. 
1839—1845. 
Agrarian Riots—Agricultural Distress—Land Drainage—Reclama¬ 
tion of Bogs—Drainage of Bogs—Fuel in Ireland—Royal 
Agricultural Society at Oxford, 1839, and Cambridge, 1840— 
Experiments at Marsh Gibbon in Land Drainage—Agricultural 
Experiments—Letter from Sir R. Peel—The Potato Famine— 
Allotments at Islip—Agriculture and Geology—Sir R. Peel at 
Drayton Manor—Buckland and Stephenson—“ The Gift of the 
Gab ”—Railway Engines and the Sun’s Light—Lord Playfair’s 
Reminiscences—Use of Coprolites—Characteristics of Buck- 
land—Offered Deanery of Westminster—Love of Humour . 150 
