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The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, D.DL., F.R.S; Sometime Dean of Westminster, Twice President of the Geological Society, and First Pres: (English)

The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, D.DL., F.R.S; Sometime Dean of Westminster, Twice President of the Geological Society, and First Pres: (English)

          
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. DR. BUCKLAND'S NOTES ON DRAINAGE; THE AGRI- CULTURAL SOCIETY AT OXFORD IN 1839, AND AT CAMBRIDGE IN 1840; EXPERIMENTAL FARM AT MARSH GIBBON; ALLOTMENTS AT ISLIP; LECTURE ON THE POTATO DISEASE, 1845; DISCOVERY OF COPROLITES; PARTIES AT DRAYTON MANOR; LORD PLAYFAIR'S RECOLLECTIONS OF BUCKLAND. 1839--184S. "Agriculture feeds us; to a great degree it clothes us; without it we could not have manufactures and we should not have commerce. These all stand together; but they stand together like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the centre--and that largest is Agriculture."' IT has been most truly said that Dr. Buckland devoted all his varied scientific knowledge and experience to the benefit of his fellow-men. "This craving," to quote the words of Professor Williamson,8 "to be useful in 1 Words spoken by Daniel Webster, American orator and statesman, responding to the toast of distinguished strangers, at the meeting of the Agricultural Society in Queen's College Quadrangle, 1839. 'Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the Victoria University, Owens Coll., Manchester. The biographer is greatly indebted to this distinguished gentleman for the assistance he rendered her when she commenced this memoir. Buckland's shrewdness in the discovery of great talent is to be seen in the 150 promoting the welfare of the world around him characterised his entire life." So far back as 1818 the subject of agriculture had occupied his attention. And, apart from the natural affinity between agriculture and geology, there were special circumstances in the condition of the time which appealed strongly to so ardent a philanthropist. The fall of prices after the Peace of 1815 produced wide-spread ruin, and, for the moment, the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230278612
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 163 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230278613
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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