Buckland, William 1784-1856

Overview

Works:	206 works in 769 publications in 4 languages and 6,116 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Records and correspondence History Sermons Dictionaries Criticism, interpretation, etc Classification
Roles:	Author, Other, Editor
Classifications:	QE507, 560

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Most widely held works about William Buckland

The great chain of history : William Buckland and the English school of geology (1814-1849) by Nicolaas A Rupke( Book )
Bones and ochre : the curious afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland by Marianne Sommer( Book )
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 E. O Gordon( Book )
An Irish naturalist in Cuvier's laboratory : the letters of Joseph Pentland 1820-1832 by Joseph Barclay Pentland( Book )
Remarks on Dr. Buckland's view of the mosaic creation, as the last fitting up of the earth: with a notice of the recorded extent of the deluge by W. G. C( Book )

[Reverend William Buckland correspondence] by William Buckland( )
The life and correspondence of William Buckland, sometime Dean of Westminster, twice president of the Geological Society, and first president of the British Association by E. O Gordon( Book )
Letters and communications from Americans by Royal Society (Great Britain)( )
The life and correspondence of William Buckland, D. Dl., F.R.S., sometime Dean of Westminster, twice president of the Geological Society, and first president of the British Association by Elizabeth Oke (Buckland) Gordon( Book )
The mysterious bone by Robert Hirschfeld( Book )
by Alexander von Humboldt( )
Was this, then, antediluvian man? by Edward W Nield( Book )
The life and correspondence of William Buckland by Mary Gordon( Book )
[Biographical information on William Buckland]( Book )
The Meaning of fossils( Visual )
The canon, the chemist and the dinosaurs by Allan Chapman( Book )
Miscellaneous correspondence by Alexander von Humboldt( )
The Rev. William Buckland, D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c., Dean of Westminster and Reader in Mineralogy and Geology in the University of Oxford( Book )
Cuvier -- Buckland -- Mantell et les dinosaures by Philippe Taquet( )

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Most widely held works by William Buckland

Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology by William Buckland( Book )

105 editions published between 1836 and 2015 in English and German and held by 785 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Classic geological and palaeontological textbook, from William Buckland, the first professor for Geology in Oxford and this is the first American edition which had a great influence in the US! Buckland's importance lay "in helping to redefine the nature and method of a geological explanation. Buckland and other geologists wished to produce detailed explanations that would in effect constitute a geological history, period by period, of the events of a given locality. Buckland was thus one of the men, perhaps the ablest and probably the most acute, who built a typically "British" geology, based on careful local stratigraphy and local dynamic explanations but revivified by the addition of fossil evidence". - DSB II, p.567-68

Reliquiæ diluvianæ : or, Observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel and on other geological phenomena attesting the action of a universal deluge by William Buckland( Book )

52 editions published between 1823 and 2011 in English and Latin and held by 436 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Buckland (1784–1856), Dean of Westminster, was an English geologist best known for his contributions to palaeontology. He became the first Reader in Geology at the University of Oxford in 1818. Buckland spent 1819–1822 investigating fossil remains in caves, in order to refine his concept of catastrophism. His research led him to the realisation that hyena remains in Kirkland Cave, Yorkshire, were the remains of an ancient ecosystem and were not relics of the Flood; this led to his being awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society of London in 1822. This volume, first published in 1823, contains a full account of Buckland's influential research in Kirkland Cave, which demonstrated for the first time the ability of scientific analysis to reconstruct events from deep time. Buckland's support for and influential revision of the concept of catastrophism is also illustrated in this volume

Journal of an embassy from the governor general of India to the court of Ava by John Crawfurd( Book )

7 editions published in 1834 in English and held by 81 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vindiciæ geologicæ, or The connexion of geology with religion : explained in an inaugural lecture delivered before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the endowment of readership in geology by William Buckland( Book )

5 editions published between 1820 and 1968 in English and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La géologie et la minéralogie dans leurs rapports avec la théologie naturelle by William Buckland( Book )

8 editions published in 1838 in French and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage by Frederick William Beechey( Book )

5 editions published in 1839 in English and held by 50 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vindiciæ geologicæ : the connexion of geology with religion, explained in an inaugural lecture delivered before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the endowment of readership in geology by William Buckland( Book )

10 editions published between 1820 and 1968 in English and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geology and mineralogy by William Buckland( Book )

4 editions published between 1980 and 2013 in English and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage : compiled from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalists of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey ... in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28 by John Richardson( Book )

3 editions published in 1839 in English and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Die Urwelt und ihre Wunder by William Buckland( Book )

9 editions published between 1837 and 1838 in German and held by 32 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An inquiry whether the sentence of death pronounced at the fall of man included the whole animal creation, or was restricted to the human race. A sermon preached in the cathedral of Christ-church, before the University of Oxford, January 27, 1839 by William Buckland( Book )

8 editions published in 1839 in English and held by 24 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On the adaptation of the structure of the sloths to their peculiar mode of life by William Buckland( Book )

5 editions published between 1834 and 1977 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Observations relative to the fossil elk of the Isle of Mann by H. R Oswald( Book )

3 editions published between 1825 and 1977 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Professor Buckland's reply to some observations in Dr. Fleming's remarks on the distribution of British animals by William Buckland( Book )

3 editions published between 1825 and 1979 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A dictionary of statistical terms : prepared for the International Statistical Institute with the assistance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation by Maurice G Kendall( Book )

5 editions published between 1957 and 1972 in English and German and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 E. O Gordon( Book )

4 editions published between 1894 and 2010 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published in 1894, this biography details the life of renowned geologist William Buckland (1784-1856) who, along with Sedgwick and Lyell, was one of the pioneers of modern geological inquiry. While he is better known for attempting to correlate his geological findings with the Old Testament, Buckland's studies paved the way for Darwin's development of evolutionary theory. In the course of his illustrious career, Buckland was a Canon of Christ Church, was twice appointed President of the Geological Society, served as the first President of the British Association, and became Dean of Westminster. Penned by Buckland's daughter almost forty years after his death, The Life and Correspondence provides a more personal insight into Buckland's scientific endeavours. Gordon's biography is complemented by several illustrations, and the appendices include an extensive list of positions held by Buckland and his membership of learned societies, and a complete index of his publications

The evolution debate, 1813-1870 by Philip Henry Gosse( Book )

1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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