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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND. 
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pursuits ; for she would remain quiet, without any one 
to hold her, while he was examining sections and strata, 
and then patiently submit to be loaded with the specimens 
collected. Ultimately she became so accustomed to the 
work that she invariably came to a full stop at a stone 
quarry, and nothing would persuade her to proceed until 
the rider had got off, and examined, or, if a stranger to 
her, pretended to examine, the quarry. On one occasion 
Dr. Buckland was in some danger from the falling stones 
as he was climbing up the side of one of these quarries ; 
when told of his danger by the bystanders—“ Never 
mind/ 5 said he, “ the stones know me.” 
Buckland’s enthusiastic labours were not without reward. 
Not only the University of Oxford, but Lord Liverpool’s 
Government recognised the services of the man to whom, 
in the words of Professor Brockhaus, “ undoubtedly 
belonged the honour of reducing the study of Geology to 
a science.” 
In 1813 Buckland succeeded to the Readership of 
Mineralogy which Dr. Kidd had resigned. The lectures 
which the new Reader delivered in that capacity were 
not confined to Mineralogy, but embraced the latest 
discoveries and doctrines of Geology. Plis courses 
attracted in a high degree the attention and admiration 
of the University, and very largely contributed to the 
public recognition of Geology as a science by the en¬ 
dowment in 1819 of a Professorship. The stipend of the 
Professor was allotted from the Treasury, at the instance 
of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, for the delivery 
of an annual course of lectures on Geology. To this new 
