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DEDICATION. 
The warm interest your Lordship has been pleased to take in 
the progress of these later discoveries, which are now published to 
the world, demands this tribute of my grateful acknowledgment: 
and I have been long indebted to your Lordship, for the same 
indulgent notice of my endeavours to call the attention of the 
University to the subject of geology, and combine with those 
branches of study which are more strictly academical, the cul¬ 
tivation of this new and interesting science. I am happy, 
therefore, in being permitted to add these expressions of my own 
feelings to the public respect and veneration, which have accom¬ 
panied your Lordship through a long and eminently useful life; 
a life distinguished no less by the enlightened encouragement 
of learning and the liberal arts, than by the faithful discharge 
of the higher and more important duties which belong to your 
exalted station. 
I have the honor to remain, 
My Lord, 
Your much obliged, and most devoted servant, 
WILLIAM BUCKLAND. 
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 
May, 1823. 
