CHAPTER II. 
GEOLOGICAL TOURS IN ENGLAND, WALES, AND THE CON¬ 
TINENT, 1808-17; READER IN MINERALOGY, 1813 ; 
PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY, 1819 ; CHARACTERISTICS 
AS A LECTURER; TOUR IN FRANCE, 1820 ; HIS GEO¬ 
LOGICAL COLLECTIONS AND THEIR FATE. 
1808—1822. 
“ La vie des savans nous enseigne a chaque page que les grandes 
verites n’ont et6 decouvertes et etablies que par des etudes prolong^es, 
solitaires, dirigees constamment vers un objet special, guidees sans cesse 
par une logique mefiante et reserv^e.”—C uvier. 
I N the summer of 1808 Buckland made his first geolo¬ 
gical tour. Alone and on horseback he travelled from 
Oxford across the chalk hills of Berks and Wilts and 
Dorset to Corfe Castle in the Isle of Purbeck. In the 
vertical strata of hard white limestone on which that 
castle stands he recognised the chalk, but the relations 
of the strata above and below that formation were then 
unknown. In the following year he explored in the same 
way a large part of South Devon, visiting the granite of 
Dartmoor, examining minutely the formations, and collect¬ 
ing specimens of the geology of the district. In 1810 he 
made a tour through the centre and north of England, 
