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[CH. III. 
LIFE 01 DEAN BUCKLAND. 
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as a teacher, has had some experience of the value of his 
work. When I went up to Oxford in 1857, Dr. Buckland’s 
name was a great memory in the University, and Professor 
Phillips, who had worked with him side by side almost 
from the beginning of his geological work, was giving 
lectures in the Old Clarendon Buildings facing the Broad. 
The parts of these lectures which left a lasting mark on 
me were those relating to the liassic reptiles, and the 
Reptiles and Mammalia from Stonesficld, both of which 
had been either discovered, or specially dealt with, by Dr. 
Buckland in the Bridgewater Treatise, and were in his 
collection. There were also the large collections from the 
bone caves of Germany and England described by him in 
the 4 Reliquiae Diluvianse,’ which profoundly impressed me 
and caused me to take up more particularly that section 
of the history of the earth about which I have written in 
‘ Cave Hunting.’ 
“ I therefore in my own person can speak of the great 
influence which Dr. Buckland’s work has had on me, 
either directly from his collection, or through his friend 
Professor Phillips. I shall never cease to venerate his 
name. His books still, in my opinion, belong to the classics 
of Geology, although of course during the last seventy 
years the theories as to the Deluge and the doctrine of 
Final Causes have changed. The facts, however, have not 
changed, and, in my work as Professor in Owens College, I 
still use as a class-book the last edition of the Bridgewater 
Treatise edited by Phillips for the Reptiles, the Stonesfield 
Mammalia, and the Pentacrinoids. My book on £ Cave 
Hunting’ is a lineal descendant of * Reliquiae Diluvianae,’ 
and probably I should never have taken up that question 
had Dr. Buckland’s book never been written.” 
When Dr. Buckland was writing this essay on Kirkdale 
Cavern, he took great pains to compare the bones there 
found with recent bones, in order to make his story quite 
complete. 
u In the Kirkdale cave he found a portion of a skull 
