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LIFE OF DEAN BUCK LAND. 
CH. V. 
whose instigation Buckland discovered in the cave at Kirk- 
dale in 1821 the fossil remains which became the nucleus of 
the York Museum, 1 and it was also he who, ten years after¬ 
wards, was the mainspring and active secretary of the 
British Association in 1831. During the summer term at 
Christ Church scarcely a week passed without a party from 
Nuneham coming over either to breakfast (breakfast parties 
were then the fashion) or to luncheon. The frequency of 
such arrivals vividly impressed Dr. Buckland’s butler. He 
had, he says, “ good cause to remember those parties, for 
two or three carriage loads would come over at a time, 
and eighteen or twenty would sit down to luncheon, and 
Master Frank was always sent round the table to show 
the guests the Siberian mammoth, which had been 
mounted in a silver box. The children always came 
down to the drawing-room afterwards, to see the company 
before they went off to the Museum.” 
In June 1841 the Archbishop had the honour of enter¬ 
taining the Queen and the Prince Consort at Nuneham, 
during their visit to Oxford. Mrs. Buckland notes in her 
journal her regret that, owing to the serious illness of 
one of her younger children, she is unable to leave the 
house to take part in the enthusiastically loyal reception 
given by the citizens and students of the University city 
to the Royal visitors. The unusual bustle in the beautiful 
streets may be imagined. The Queen and Prince arrived 
on the 12th of June, and coaches, flys, tandems, and every 
1 This Museum was the origin of the establishment of the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society, of which William Vernon Harcourt was chosen 
President. 
