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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND. 
[CH. II. 
there were few subjects which he could not more or less 
illustrate. In build, look, and manner he was a thorough 
English gentleman, and was appreciated in every circle.” 
Sowerby has recorded an anecdote of Buckland galloping 
off with a huge ammonite over his shoulders, his head passed 
through the opening occasioned by the loss of the central 
volution, when his companions dubbed him on the spot 
“ Ammon Knight.” “ A man of devout spirit, strong of 
mind and strong in body, working hard and setting others 
to work, gathering and giving knowledge, a patient student, 
a powerful teacher, a friendly associate, a valiant soldier 
for geology in days when she was weak, an honoured 
leader in her hour of triumph.” 
One of the most notable and lasting of scientific friend¬ 
ships was formed between two of his pupils, Sir Philip de 
Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., and Viscount Cole (afterwards 
Lord Enniskillen), both of whom were at Christ Church 
at that time. In the Long Vacation of 1820 these two 
young men set out on their geological travels through 
Europe. Dr. Buckland sent them first—after William of 
Wykeham’s fashion of “ two and two ”—to collect bones and 
work out for him the latest discovered cave in Bavaria. 
Mr. Etheridge, of the Natural History Museum, says that, 
before starting on their journey, these two friends made 
their wills. In case of the death of cither, the joint collec¬ 
tion was to belong to the survivor for his life ; on his death 
the collection was to be sold, and offered first to the 
British Museum, then to their Alma Mater of Oxford, 
after that to Cambridge and Paris. If not purchased by 
any of these bodies, the world in general was to have the 
