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LIFE OF DEAN BUCK LAND. 
[CH. II. 
Beche, and Greenough ; he had also enlisted the zealous 
interest of some ladies of high culture living at Penrice 
Castle, in the district of Glamorganshire known as Gower. 
In June 1815 he writes that “the information on the 
geology of Glamorganshire which he hoped to receive from 
the Lady Mary Cole and the Misses Talbot will be wanted 
for insertion in the Geological Society’s Map of England, 
now far advanced in the hands of the engraver.” He re¬ 
quests “ that that part of the map of Glamorganshire which 
includes the hundred of Gower may be forwarded as soon 
as convenient,” and hopes “ to secure also the remaining 
parts of Glamorganshire, enriched by the geological obser¬ 
vations of the approaching summer which he trusts the 
ladies will have the kindness to record upon it.” He en¬ 
closes “ a drawing and description of some extraordinary 
coal-plants on the authority of an eye-witness, Mr. 
Walter Calverly Trevelyan, on whose father’s property 
near Newbiggin they are found, and who promises to 
bring to Oxford in October drawings of every variety 
that he can find of fossil vegetables in that district.” 
“ These drawings will,” he adds, “ form a valuable subject 
of comparison with those of the South Wales coal-fields, 
should there be any collection of the latter in existence; 
if there be not, Mr. Buckland would venture to suggest 
to Miss Jane Talbot that she would afford an invaluable 
acquisition to the science of Botany and Geology, and 
acquire immortal reputation in both departments, by select¬ 
ing a series of the most perfect fossil vegetables of the Welsh 
coal strata as her first essay in the noble art of lithography, 
for which also he hopes to bring her back some worthy 
