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William Buckland
William Buckland DD, FRS was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist.
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science · English palaeontologist (1784–1856) · curator · paleontologist · physicist · geologist · botanist · theologian · pastor · also William Buckland, Buckand, Buckland
Born 12 March 1784 · Died 14 August 1856 · Q312389
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.
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2018· 1 entry
1972· 1 entry
Botanist Heikki Roivainen circumscribed Bucklandiella, a genus of moss in the family Grimmiaceae, which was named in his honour
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1859· 1 entry
Reports that Buckland served soup to his guests before claiming that it was an alligator that he had dissected earlier that day, to the guests significant shock and discomfort
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1856· 5 entries
Died 1856-08-14.
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“Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.”
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“The taste of mole was the most repulsive I knew until I tasted a bluebottle [fly].”
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“I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king.”
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“Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.”
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1848· 1 entry
Won Wollaston Medal (1848).
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1847· 1 entry
Was appointed a trustee in the British Museum and, in 1848, he was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London
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1846· 1 entry
William Buckland was rector of St
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1845· 2 entries
Career landmark: Dean of Westminster (1845–1856).
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Was appointed by Sir Robert Peel to the vacant Deanery of Westminster (he succeeded Samuel Wilberforce)
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1840· 1 entry
Went on an extended tour of Scotland and found evidence there of former glaciation
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1836· 2 entries
Acknowledged that the biblical account of Noah's flood could not be confirmed using geological evidence
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With the title Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology
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1832· 2 entries
Buckland presided over the second meeting of the British Association, which was then held at Oxford
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Career landmark: President of the British Science Association (1832–1833).
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1831· 1 entry
Was able to suggest a good starting point in South Wales for Murchison's researches into the rocks beneath the secondary strata associated with the age of reptiles
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1825· 1 entry
Buckland was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1824· 2 entries
Became president of the Geological Society of London
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Career landmark: President of the Geological Society of London (1824–1826).
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1822· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1822).
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1820· 1 entry
As Vindiciæ Geologiæ; or the Connexion of Geology with Religion explained, both justifying the new science of geology and reconciling geological evidence with the biblical accounts of creation and Noah's Flood
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1818· 1 entry
Buckland was elected a fellow of the Royal Society
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1813· 1 entry
Buckland was appointed Reader in mineralogy, in succession to John Kidd, giving lively and popular lectures with increasing emphasis on geology and palaeontology
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1808· 2 entries
Studied at Corpus Christi College, Master of Arts (1808).
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Became a Fellow of Corpus Christi in 1809, and was ordained as a priest
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1805· 1 entry
Studied at Corpus Christi College, Bachelor of Arts (1801–1805).
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1784· 1 entry
Born 1784-03-12.
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