CHAPTER VI. 
DR. BUCKLAND’S NOTES ON DRAINAGE ; THE AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL SOCIETY AT OXFORD IN 1839, AND AT 
CAMBRIDGE IN 1840 ; EXPERIMENTAL FARM AT 
MARSH GIBBON ; ALLOTMENTS AT ISLIP ; LECTURE 
ON THE POTATO DISEASE, 1845 1 DISCOVERY OF 
COPROLITES ; PARTIES AT DRAYTON MANOR ; LORD 
PLAYFAIR’S RECOLLECTIONS OF BUCKLAND. 
1839—1845. 
Agriculture feeds us ; to a great degree it clothes us ; without it 
we could not have manufactures and we should not have commerce. 
These all stand together; but they stand together like pillars in a 
cluster, the largest in the centre—and that largest is Agriculture.” 1 
T T has been most truly said that Dr. Buckland devoted 
-I- all his varied scientific knowledge and experience to 
the benefit of his fellow-men. “ This craving,” to quote 
the words of Professor Williamson, 2 “to be useful in 
1 Words spoken by Daniel Webster, American orator and statesman, 
responding to the toast of distinguished strangers, at the meeting of the 
Agricultural Society in Queen’s College Quadrangle, 1839, 
2 Pr °fessor W. C. Williamson, LL.D~ F.R.S., Professor of Botany 
m the Victoria University, Owens Coll., Manchester. The biographer 
is greatly indebted to this distinguished gentleman for the assistance 
he rendered her when she commenced this memoir. Buckland’s 
shrewdness in the discovery of great talent is to be seen in the 
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