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LIFE OF DEAN BUCK LAND. 
[CH. II, 
Marmor hoc egregii Viri 
GULIELMI BUCKLAND, S.T.P., 
Soc. Reg. Lond. Soc., Gall. Inst. Sod., Adscr. 
in Ecclesia Westmonastr. Decani 
Geologiae apud Oxonienses Professoris insignissimi 
oris atque animi lineamenta referens 
effingi curaverunt 
et in hac iEde studiis naturalibus 
dicata 
inter longinquee vetus vetustatis rudera 
antiquitatis primitias 
ope sua et industria excavatas 
in perpetuum conservari voluerunt 
Amici et Discipuli superstites. 
A.D. i860. 
The subsequent history of the collection is a melan¬ 
choly record of neglect. Owing to a variety of causes, 
a great part of this valuable bequest to the University 
remains in the same condition (and with perishing labels) 
in which it was removed from the Clarendon thirty-six 
years ago. The Hebdomadal Council at Oxford were 
urged to apportion a space, when the enlargement of the 
Museum buildings was contemplated, for the “collec¬ 
tion in the cellars,” as it was called, and within 
the last two years a large room has been placed at the 
disposal of the Professor of Geology. There the matter 
rests, and, it is feared, will continue to rest, unless the 
University makes a special grant to rescue this bequest 
from oblivion. Not only docs this collection consist of 
Dr. Buckland’s gatherings of the first-fruits of the new 
science, but, as he was the greatest authority on geology 
at the beginning of the century, it includes specimens 
