English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)

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William Buckland. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1849, after A. Claudet.

Ichthyosaurs attending a lecture on fossilised human remains. Lithograph by Sir Henry de la Bèche, 1830, after his drawing.

The life and correspondence of William Buckland, D. D., F. R. S. : sometime dean of Westminster, twice president of the Geological Society, and first president of the British Association / by his daughter, Mrs. Gordon.

Scholars attending a lecture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Coloured lithograph printed by C. Hullmandel after N. Whittock.

William Buckland. Etching "scratched by T. Sopwith".

William Buckland. Mezzotint by S. Cousins, 1833, after T. Phillips.

The great chain of history : William Buckland and the English school of geology (1814-1849) / Nicolaas A. Rupke.

The canon, the chemist and the dinosaurs / Allan Chapman.

Antediluvian creatures, in a primaeval landscape. Mixed method engraving by A. M. Perrot.

Cross-section of a lead mine in Derbyshire, showing miners working towards an animal fossil. Lithograph by T. Webster after a sketch by W. Buckland.

Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February, 1840 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.

Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19st of February, 1841 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.

On the Cycadeoideae, a family of fossil plants found on the oolite quarries of the Isle of Portland / [William Buckland].

Warner Collection: material relating to the physiologist William Prout (1785-1850)

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William Buckland

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Images by William Buckland

Images featuring William Buckland

Works from the collections

Antediluvian creatures, in a primaeval landscape. Mixed method engraving by A. M. Perrot.

Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February, 1840 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.

Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19st of February, 1841 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.

On the Cycadeoideae, a family of fossil plants found on the oolite quarries of the Isle of Portland / [William Buckland].

Warner Collection: material relating to the physiologist William Prout (1785-1850)

Frequent collaborators

William Buckland

Images from the collections

Images by William Buckland

Images featuring William Buckland

Works from the collections

Antediluvian creatures, in a primaeval landscape. Mixed method engraving by A. M. Perrot.

Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February, 1840 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.

Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19st of February, 1841 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.

On the Cycadeoideae, a family of fossil plants found on the oolite quarries of the Isle of Portland / [William Buckland].

Warner Collection: material relating to the physiologist William Prout (1785-1850)

Frequent collaborators

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