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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30. (search)
ich left not a day or an hour of his short sojourn there unoccupied. The following letter from Buckland is one of many proffering hospitality and friendly advice on his arrival. Dr. Buckland to LoDr. Buckland to Louis Agassiz. Oxford, August 26, 1834. . . . I am rejoiced to hear of your safe arrival in London, and write to say that I am in Oxford, and that I shall be most happy to receive you and give you ht on this first visit to Great Britain. It was the beginning of his life-long friendship with Buckland, Sedgwick, Murchison, Lyell, and others of like pursuits and interests. Made welcome in many merous invitations, social and scientific, which followed the Edinburgh meeting. Guided by Dr. Buckland, to whom not only every public and private collection, but every rare specimen in the United -morrow. . . . By a great good fortune for me, the British Association, at the suggestion of Buckland, Sedgwick, and Murchison, has renewed, for the present year, its vote of one hundred guineas to
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 9: 1837-1839: Aet. 30-32. (search)
earches upon structure of Mollusks. internal casts of shells. glacial explorations. views of Buckland. relations with Arnold Guyot. their work together in the Alps. letter to Sir Philip Egerton occurs the first attempt at an English letter found among Agassiz's papers. It is addressed to Buckland, and contains this passage: Since I saw the glaciers I am quite of a snowy humor, and will have ancient ice-beds and moraines of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, it is curious to find Buckland answering: I am sorry that I cannot entirely adopt the new theory you advocate to explain transEngland, which I can only explain by referring to currents of water. During the same summer Mrs. Buckland writes from Interlaken, in the course of a journey in Switzerland with her husband. . . We have made a good tour of the Oberland and have seen glaciers, etc., but Dr. Buckland is as far as ever from agreeing with you. We shall see hereafter how completely he became a convert to Agassiz's gl
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 10: 1840-1842: Aet. 33-35. (search)
es and Ireland, would present the same phenomena as the valleys of the Alps. Dr. Buckland had offered to be his guide in this search after glacier tracks, as he had fists of the day, he said: Among the older naturalists, only one stood by me. Dr. Buckland, Dean of Westminster, who had come to Switzerland at my urgent request for tf Argyll, standing in a valley not unlike some of the Swiss valleys, I said to Buckland: Here we shall find our first traces of glaciers; and, as the stage entered tha summary of the scientific results of their excursion, followed by one from Dr. Buckland, who had become an ardent convert to his views. Apropos of this meeting, DrDr. Buckland writes in advance as follows:— Taymouth Castle, October 15, 1840. . . . Lyell has adopted your theory in toto!!! On my showing him a beautiful clusteions, and upon the want of solidity in the objections brought against them. Dr. Buckland was truly eloquent. He has now full possession of this subject; is, indeed,
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 11: 1842-1843: Aet. 35-36. (search)
given him especial pleasure, of the favorable impression his views were making in some quarters in England. From Dr. Buckland. Oxford, July 22, 1842. . . . You will, I am sure, rejoice with me at the adhesion of C. Darwin to the doctrine ofleave more evident traces of its activity and vast powers. I found one with the lateral moraine quite perfect, which Dr. Buckland did not see. Pray if you have any communication with Dr. Buckland give him my warmest thanks for having guided me, thrDr. Buckland give him my warmest thanks for having guided me, through the published abstract of his memoir, to scenes, and made me understand them, which have given me more delight than I almost remember to have experienced since I first saw an extinct crater. The valley about here and the site of the inn at whiccotland have been occupied by arms of the sea, and very likely (for in that point I cannot, of course, doubt Agassiz and Buckland) by glaciers also. It continued to be a grief to Agassiz that Humboldt, the oldest of all his scientific friends, and
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 15: 1847-1850: Aet. 40-43. (search)
in opposing me have been forward in approval, I begin to hope that I am not yet quite done up; and that unlike the Bishop of Oviedo, my last sermon ne sent pas de l'apoplexie. I have, nevertheless, been desperately out of sorts and full of gout and liver and all kinds of irritation this summer, which is the first for many a long year in which I have been unable to take the field. The meeting at Birmingham, however, revived me. Professor W. Rogers will have told you all about our doings. Buckland is up to his neck in sewage, and wishes to change all underground London into a fossil cloaca of pseudo coprolites. This does not quite suit the chemists charged with sanitary responsibilities; for they fear the Dean will poison half the population in preparing his choice manures! But in this as in everything he undertakes there is a grand sweeping view. When are we to meet again? And when are we to have a stand — up fight on the erratics of the Alps? You will see by the abstract of
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
Brongniart, 176. Bronn, 29, 48; his collection now in Cambridge, 30. Brown-Sequard, Dr., 782. Buch, Leopold von, 201, 256, 264, 265, 272, 274, 345. Buckland, Dr., invites Agassiz to England, 232; acts as his guide to fossil fishes, 250; to glacier tracks, 306; a convert to glacial theory, 307, 309, 311; mentioned by Murister Olympe, 163. to his old pupils, 532. to Elie de Beaumont, 446. to Bonaparte, Prince of Ca-nino, 356, 362, 377, 378. to A. Braun, 33, 36, 41, 118. to Dr. Buckland, 234. to T. G. Cary, 582. to James D. Dana, 451, 493, 509, 519. to L. Coulon, 190, 197. to Decaisne, 432. to A. de la Rive, 663. to Sir P. Egerton, 284, assiz, 60, 113, 129, 134, 171. A. D. Bache to Louis Agassiz, 480, 482. Alexander Braun to Louis Agassiz, 35, 39, 43. Leopold von Buch to Agassiz, 272. Dr. Buckland to Agassiz, 232, 247, 309, 342. L. Coulon to Agassiz, 199. Cuvier to Agassiz, 114. Charles Darwin to Agassiz, 469. A. de la Rive to Agassiz, 276.
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
is wonderful resources by making a counter-raid against Memphis, taking with him parts of the brigades of Bell and Rucker, the latter now under Col. J. J. Neely. With the fragmentary regiments, the Second Missouri, the Twelfth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Tennessee, and the Eighteenth Mississippi battalion, he dashed into Memphis early on the morning of August 21st, and very nearly captured General Washburn, who escaped under cover of the darkness, leaving his clothing. Generals Hurlbut and Buckland were also looked for, but those officers were so fortunate as to escape. In his telegraphic report of this daring exploit Forrest stated that he had killed and captured 400 of the enemy, and captured their entire camp with about 300 horses and mules. His loss was 35 killed and wounded. By this forcible demonstration of his daring and ability Forrest compelled Smith's army to abandon its advance to the interior and turn about in an effort to intercept his return to Mississippi, in which, o
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1860., [Electronic resource], Stupidity of lobsters. (search)
Stupidity of lobsters. --Lobsters, says Dr. Buckland, if left on the rocks, never go back to the water of their own accord; they wait till it comes to them. This peculiarity was observed after a landslide on the coast of Dorsetshire, England, which by its great weight forced up a portion of the bottom of the sea. On this suddenly elevated bit of ground there happened to be several lobsters, who doubtless thought the low tide had taken place with uncommon celerity, and that it would return again. Anyhow, the foolish creatures waited for the tide to come up and cover them. Of course it never did come up again; they remained in their places and died there, although the water was in many instances only a few feet from their noses. They had not the sense to tumble into it and save their lives.
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence. (search)
ason. It is also said that a man by the name of Wheeler, who had a brother killed a few years ago by one Buckler or Buckland, has joined the Yankees, is a captain, and on last Sunday went to Buckland's with a posse of men, took him out and hung Buckland's with a posse of men, took him out and hung him, left him hanging until Monday, when they took him down and buried him. Buckland was tried for the killing of Wheeler, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. He served two yearsBuckland was tried for the killing of Wheeler, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. He served two years of the time, and was then pardoned. A great many thought at the time of the trial that Buckland ought to have been acquitted. The militia are gathering at their different places of rendezvous in goodly numbers. One of the recusant ones, who uBuckland ought to have been acquitted. The militia are gathering at their different places of rendezvous in goodly numbers. One of the recusant ones, who utterly refused to go, and swore he would die before he would go, drew a knife upon the guard who went for him, when the guard fired upon him, breaking his leg about the knee joint. His leg will have to be amputated — a sad warning to all others of h
The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
tents, and still able to tell the tale. Such were the fearful disasters that opened the rebel onset on the lines of Buckland's brigade, in Sherman's division. Similar, though perhaps less terrible in some of the details, were the fates of Prentsweeping up against their fronts, too, and the battle thus opened fiercely along Sherman's whole line on the right. Buckland's brigade had been compelled to abandon their camps without a struggle.--Some of the regiments, it is even said, ran wit in Prentiss's division, of which last more in a moment — and the enemy did not fail to profit by the wild disorder. As Buckland's brigade fell back, McClelland threw forward his left to support it. Meanwhile Sherman was doing his best to rally his m their camps across the little ravine behind; but here, for a time, they made a gallant defence, while what was left of Buckland's was falling back in such order as it might, and leaving McClelland's left to take their place, and check the wave of r
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