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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND. 
[CH. V. 
us through the medium of their works ; a meeting in which 
they whose heads and hearts we have from a distance long 
esteemed and loved and venerated are thus brought close 
together in friendly and brotherly association, and permitted 
(though but for a short, yet most delightful and intellectual 
week of their existence) thus to hold sweet counsel and 
communion together amid these our palaces of peace. 55 
Professor Sedgwick, who required so much persuasion 
to attend the meeting, seems from the following speech 
to Have enjoyed himself. In thanking Dr. Buckland for 
the delightful manner in which he had presided over the 
meeting, he says :— 
“ All who have witnessed the exercise of his great 
powers combined with extraordinary tact and temper, so 
that through his governing influence the jarring elements 
of a society not yet organised had been brought to order 
and harmony, must have been struck with admiration. 
During the long Philosophic banquet of which they had 
been partaking while in his presence, all seemed to have 
been living in intellectual sunshine. He looked forward 
with confidence and pleasure to the results of this union 
between men of common feeling and common sentiments, 
who possessed one common object, the promotion of truth 
and the improvement of mankind. 55 
The British Association, after meeting in the four Uni¬ 
versity cities of the United Kingdom, selected Bristol for 
the place of its next assembly, in 1836. Buckland was 
President of the Geological Section. The paper read on 
Wednesday, August 24th, was on “ Saurian Remains,” and 
in the course of the discussion which followed, Buckland 
mentioned the valuable collection at the Hotwells, which 
had been of great service to him in the preparation of his 
Bridgewater Treatise. He also produced a human rib as 
