1808-1822.] GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION AT OXFORD. 
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During Buckland’s lifetime his collection was placed in 
the Clarendon Buildings. A room had been prepared 
for its reception, and the Professor writes in the highest 
glee to Lady Mary Cole, on April 3rd, 1822, to tell her of 
the fact. " You will be pleased to hear that my Lecture 
Room is to be put to rights and fitted up with ,£300 worth 
of cabinets between this and midsummer, when Mr. Miller 
of Bristol is to come here, and arrange and catalogue my 
collection, and clear my room of boxes.” 
Buckland was particularly careful to put descriptive 
labels on all specimens that came into his possession, 
and these were usually written, or rather painted, by 
his wife. From long practice, she acquired a knack of 
finding the best place on which to mark them, and 
her clear labelling may be seen on specimens in all 
parts of the Oxford Museum as well as in Cromwell 
Road. 
Ultimately Buckland bequeathed the collection to the 
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the use 
of the Professors of Geology who might succeed him, with 
all the geological charts, sections, and engravings that 
might be in the Clarendon Buildings at the time of his 
death. Professor Phillips, who acted as deputy Reader 
during Dean Buckland’s last illness, and succeeded to his 
Chair, proposed that the collection should henceforth be 
known by the name of the Bucklandean Museum. A new 
building was erected about 1858, to which the collection 
was removed, and a marble bust (by Weekes) of Buckland, 
the founder of the Geological Collection, was erected by 
his friends and admirers :— 
