1825-1830.] 
MRS. BUCKLAND. 
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was spent at Oxford, where she resided with the famous 
physician Sir Christopher Pegge, whose childless wife took 
great delight in the lovable and intelligent child. In the 
University City, and, perhaps, through her acquaintance 
with the learned Professor of Mineralogy, she acquired that 
love of natural science which was such a joy to her 
through all her life. Within a few hours of her death 
she was working at the microscope, ever looking expec¬ 
tantly for a clearer light in the next world to be shed on 
the wonders learnt here. Sir R. Murchison, writing of the 
happy union between Buck land and his wife, calls Mrs. 
Buckland “ a truly excellent and intellectual woman, 
who, aiding her husband in several of his most difficult 
researches, has laboured well in her vocation to render 
her children worthy of their father’s name.” 
Miss Caroline Fox, in her journal for October 8th, 1839, 
records the following story, which may have some founda¬ 
tion in fact:— 
“ Davies Gilbert tells us that Dr. Buckland was once 
travelling somewhere in Dorsetshire, and reading a new 
and weighty book of Cuvier’s which he had just received 
from the publisher; a lady was also in the coach, and 
amongst her books was this identical one, which Cuvier 
had sent her. They got into conversation, the drift of 
which was so peculiar that Dr. Buckland at last exclaimed, 
‘You must be Miss Morland, to whom I am about to 
deliver a letter of introduction.’ He was right, and she 
soon became Mrs. Buckland. She is an admirable fossil 
geologist, and makes models in leather of some of the rare 
discoveries.” 
The wedding was celebrated at Marcham Church, 1 near 
1 Dr. Buckland discovered a curious stone in Marcham Church, which 
