1784-1808.] 
EARLY LIFE. 
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which he was especially interested. “ The interval,” he 
writes, “ between my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree 
afforded me leisure to attend the lectures of Dr. Kidd on 
Mineralogy and Chemistry, and of Sir Christopher Pegge 
on Anatomy; and my position as a Scholar of Corpus 
Christi College gave me the advantage of rooms and a 
small income from the College, which I augmented by 
taking pupils. Without the liberal aid of the endowments 
of the University, I could not have had the means which 
I enjoyed, during a residence of nearly forty-five years in 
Oxford, from April 1801 to December 1845, of acquiring 
knowledge during term time, and of enlarging it by 
extensive travelling during vacations.” 
In 1809 he was elected Fellow of his College, and in the 
same year was admitted into Holy Orders at the Chapel 
Royal, St. James’s. Whether as a preacher or a tutor, 
Dr. Buckland, it may be mentioned, always wrote his 
sermons and lectures upon small slips of paper; and 
many years after, when preaching in the Chapel Royal, in 
the presence of the Oueen Dowager, by some unfortunate 
accident the contents of his sermon case came fluttering 
down in all directions from the high, old-fashioned 
pulpit. The Doctor’s old servant speedily came to the 
rescue, and, picking up the dispersed slips, handed them 
up to the preacher, who proceeded with his discourse, 
nothing disconcerted. 
The vacations of his earlier Oxford time were often 
spent near Lyme Regis. For years afterwards local 
gossip preserved traditions of his adventures with that 
geological celebrity, Mary Ann Anning, in whose company 
