BRIDGEWATER TREATISE. 
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and was not published until 1836, was widely read and 
won a distinguished reputation for its author. Most of 
his work was done at night, and his habits in this respect 
made it difficult for him to write except at home. “ I 
have about as much command of time here,” he writes to 
Murchison when on a visit the year that the Treatise was 
published, “as a turnpike man, and as I have not your 
valuable military talent of early rising I cannot steal a 
march upon the enemy by getting over the ground before 
breakfast.” 
The third edition, brought out after the Dean’s death 
in 1^56, was edited by Professor Phillips, and prefaced 
by a short memoir by Frank Buckland, who thus writes 
of Mrs. Buckland :— 
“Not only was she a pious, amiable, and excellent help¬ 
mate to my father ; but being naturally endowed with great 
mental powers, habits of perseverance and order, tempered 
by excellent judgment, she materially assisted her husband 
in his literary labours, and often gave to them a polish 
which added not a little to their merits. During the long 
period that Dr. Buckland was engaged in writing the Bridge- 
water Treatise, my mother sat up night after night, for 
weeks and months consecutively, writing to my father’s 
dictation ; and this, often till the sun’s rays, shining through 
the shutters at early morn, warned the husband to cease 
from thinking, and the wife to rest her weary hand.” 
The labour of preparing a work which broke new ground 
in so many directions was enormous. Speaking of the book 
before the British Association at Bristol in 1836, Buckland 
explains the causes which had delayed its appearance. 
“ Let any person,” he says, “ the least conversant with 
books of a similar description ; let any person who knows 
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