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IT may be of interest to note that the verses on Buckland quoted by Prof. J. L. Myres (NATUBE, Oct. 8, p. 673) were actually published at Oxford in 1869, in an entertaining little volume entitled “Fugitive Poems connected with Natural History and Physical Science”, collected by C. G. B. Daubeny, F.R.S., sometime professor of chemistry and botany in the University of Oxford. They are there dated Dec. 1, 1820, and attributed to Richard Whately, at that time fellow of Oriel, and later Archbishop of Dublin. The verses are reprinted in the “Life and Correspondence of William Buckland” published in 1894, where it is stated that Buckland was so pleased with them that he had copies lithographed to present to his friends.
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EYLES, V. Prof. Buckland and Oxford. Nature 142, 758 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142758a0
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