1808-1822.] 
BUCKLANDS LECTURES. 
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and why, in the middle of one of his exciting and graphic 
lectures. 
“ It was in this wise—and, as you desire it, the whole 
story must be told. 
“ When I was a boy my father took me to Sir 
Benjamin Brodie and said, ‘ Sir Benjamin, I want to 
make this boy a physician. What is to be done? ’ I was 
frightened out of my wits as the eagle-eyed man looked 
at me from head to foot. He replied, ( What is your 
University ? 5 ‘ Oxford,’ said my father. 4 Send the boy to 
Oxford/ said the great surgeon quickly. ‘ While there he 
is not to attend to anything connected with his future 
profession, but be as though he was to be like you in Parlia¬ 
ment. When he has taken his degree, let him come tome, 
and I will tell him what to do then/ In another minute we 
were out of the room. Some fifty were waiting elsewhere. 
“When in 1835 I went to Christ Church, your father got 
hold of me, being very friendly with mine ; assured me 
geology had nothing to do with medicine, and bade me 
attend his lectures. 
“ I can never forget my debut as his pupil—though it was 
not our first acquaintance, for I had made diagrams for 
his great evening address at the British Association in 
Edinburgh in 1834, and knew his ways. 
“ He lectured on the Cavern of Torquay, the now famous 
Kent's Cavern. He paced like a Franciscan Preacher up 
and down behind a long show-case, up two steps, in a 
room in the old Clarendon. PIc had in his hand a huge 
hyena’s skull. He suddenly dashed down the steps— 
rushed, skull in hand, at the first undergraduate on the 
front bench—and shouted, ‘ What rules the world ? ’ The 
youth, terrified, threw himself against the next back seat, 
and answered not a word. He rushed then on me, pointing 
the hyena full in my face—* What rules the world ? 5 
‘ Haven’t an idea/ I said. ‘ The stomach, sir/ he cried 
(again mounting his rostrum), ‘ rules the world. The great 
ones eat the less, and the less the lesser still/ ” 
The Professor’s forte as a lecturer in these early days 
