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William Buckland
English geologist and palaeontologist (–)
For other people named William Buckland, see William Buckland (disambiguation).
William BucklandDD, FRS (12 March – 14 August ) was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist.
His work in the early s proved that Kirkdale Cave in North Yorkshire had been a prehistoric hyena den, for which he was awarded the Copley Medal. It was praised as an example of how scientific analysis could reconstruct events in the distant past. He pioneered the use of fossilised faeces in reconstructing ecosystems, coining the begrepp coprolites. Buckland also wrote the first full konto of a fossildinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus in
Buckland followed the Gap Theory in interpreting the biblical konto of Genesis as two widely separated episodes of creation. It had emerged as a way to reconcile the scriptural konto with discoveries in geology suggesting the earth was very old. Early in his career Buckland believed he äga
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Recited by Brigid Christison.
Trophonius, ’tis said, had a den,
Into which whoso once dared to enter
Returned to the daylight again
With his wits jostled off their right centre.
But of all the miraculous caves,
And of all their miraculous stories,
Kirby Hole all its brethren outbraves,
With Buckland to tell of its glories.
Bucklandus ipse loquitur.
Ages long ere this planet was formed,
(I beg pardon, before it was drowned,)
Fierce and fell were the monsters that swarmed,
Roared and rolled in these hollows profound.
Their teeth had the temper of steel,
Skulls and dry bones they swallowed with zest, or
Mammoth tusks they despatched at a meal,
And their guts were like Papin’s Digester.
And they munched ’em just like Byron’s dog,
Tartar’s skulls that so daintily mumbled ;
Horns and hoofs were to them glorius prog
Ecce Signa— see how they’re all jumbled.
I can show you the fragments half gnawed,
Their own Album Graecum I’ve spied,
And here are the bones that they pawed
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William Buckland
From The Great Devonian Controversy by Martin J.S. Rudwick
William Buckland may not be a household name, but to dinosaur lovers the world over, he should be. Professor of Geology at Oxford, Buckland is responsible for the world's first description of a recognized dinosaur fossil, although Britain has always had a relatively sparse assortment of dinosaur specimens compared to other places, and despite the fact that the term "dinosaur" didn't exist at the time. In , Buckland published Notice on the Megalosaurus or Great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield.
Buckland's publication lagged several years behind his realization that he actually had ancient reptilian fossils on his hands, something he probably understood by after acquiring multiple fossils of the species from Jurassic rock layers. The type specimen for Megalosaurus, a partial jaw with a jutting tooth, was collected in by a friend of Buckland's, Sir Christopher Pegge. A saurian sacrum reached Buckland pr