The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, D D , F R S

Download or read book The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, D D , F R S written by Elizabeth Oke Gordon and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ANDREASBERG TO ELBINGRODE, SEPT. I'J, l822. HALLE, l822. specimens from the mosses of the Carpathian Alps and Apennines. In 1815 Buckland published the first comparative table of the strata of England and those of the Continent, as arranged by Werner. This he enlarged in I8i6, and distributed in Germany and France during a tour he made that year with John Conybeare and Grcenough to Germany. This expedition was the first of a series of similar journeys, PROF. BUCKLAND AND THE OCTOPUS. in more than one of which Buckland was accompanied by Count Breiiner. The Count was a skilful draughtsman, with a keen sense of humour, and it is to his pen that we owe the illustrations of episodes which occurred on a subsequent tour. In 1816 the travellers proceeded through Silesia to Poland, Austria, and Italy. From WeimarBuckland writes: We saw Goethe, and at Freyberg visited Werner, who gave us a grand supper, and talked learnedly of his books and music, and anything but Geology. In another letter, written after his return to England, he says: The journey occupied five months of intense labour, employed in seeing every collection and professor that could be heard of, and purchasing every map, book, and print that has been published relative to our favourite science, or to the political economy of the countries we passed through. His friends at Penrice Castle were also kept informed of his movements. In a long descriptive letter, written in April 1817, Buckland tells Lady Mary Cole that he has made a rich collection of the shells of the Sub-Apennine Hills, many of which resemble those of Hampshire and Sheppey Island, and it would have been more perfect had he not been arrested in the act of making it and sent back fifteen miles to prison at Parma! In spite o...