1831-1841.] 
SIP PHILIP EGERTOA / 
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upon his intended marriage, and visit to Oxford for the 
meeting of the Association. 
“ Christ Church, 
“ January 2yd, 1832. 
“My dear Sir Philip, —Mrs. Buckland begs to unite 
with me in the offering of our most sincere congratulations 
to you on the brilliant Discovery announced in your last, of 
a Jewel of great price which you have resolved to make 
your own, and to submit to the inspection of the learned, 
at our proposed scientific meeting in June next. The only 
rival specimen 1 have heard of as likely to be present, and 
which has the reputation of being the greatest Beauty in 
the mineral world, is a specimen that will be brought by 
the Marquis of Northampton, who has joined our Society, 
and has lately possessed himself of a fossil lizard enclosed 
in amber more exquisitely beautiful than the fairest of the 
fossil Saurians, and which your specimen alone I expect 
to find possessing the power to eclipse. Your scientific 
description of that specimen is, I presume, submitted to 
me as a paper to be read at the meeting, when all who 
may be present will have opportunity of ascertaining its 
fidelity by comparison with the original, and of applauding 
the taste and discretion you will have exhibited by the 
selection you have made. I presume our friend Lord Cole 
will appear in his unenviable state of single blessedness. 
“ Again repeating our united congratulations, and with 
most sincere wishes for your happiness, I remain, 
“Yours always very sincerely, 
“W. Buckland.” 
To Sedgwick he writes requesting him “by all your 
love of Professional Unity and the eternal fitness of things 
to locate yourself in a fraternal habitation within my 
domicile during the orgies of the next week, beginning the 
3rd of June ”; and then goes on to tell him of the arrange¬ 
ments that Mrs. Buckland had made for his comfort, and 
