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Eversley Rectory
Winchfield

[June?] 17/69

My dear Mr. Buckland

I have been in such trouble and anxiety (all right now, thank God) that I have overlooked your letter. Many thanks for the Fisheries report most valuable full of sound sense: but what stupid people the English are. They will not see that Salmon food is a great national questions, like the cornlaws and must be carries, every one fielding his private rights for the common good. I have not read [?] [?] but I will. Meanwhile I beg to report to you [?] [?] to [?] My second specimen of Coronella Lovis, Coronella Austriaca. I suspect that he was at one time not uncommon here but killed by turf cutters as a Viper. He seems confined to these S. Eastern [moors?]. He may be an old pre-glacial form, as these moors were not submerged after the beginning of the glacial epoch, but as he has not spread over, side by side with the Natterjacks on my lawn, [?] late, just before the Straits of Dover were eaten through.

Yours ever

[C. Kingsley?]

Postkarte aus Deutschland

Stettin
26 June 1880

To Frank Buckland Esq
H.M. Inspector of Fisheries
37 Albany Street
Regents Park
London, England

Today we received your payment of 27 Marks and sent to your address (Der Sohe Fischeres Zeitung?] of 1879 and 80. The following Nos. up to the end of the year will be regularly transmitted. A catalogue of our publications is placed inside. We beg to inform you, that the yearly price of the Gazette for abroad is 10M instead of 8M. Thus 4M being still to our credit.

Truly yours
Herrcke & Lebeling
Publishers

[Note in a folded piece of paper]

To Miss Mitford
Viscountess Sidmouth

It was said of Sergeant Talfourd
Sergeant Talfourd is right when for Authors he's Pleading
Who should please in their cause but for the member for Reading?

[On the folded paper in which the above note was enclosed the following was written and scored through]

The enclosed [?] [?] [?] I have just found in my possession

Very best regards to [Ds H & B?]
[?]

July 20 18--

Inked Note
Grandfather's Epitaph
by Dr. Whately
Arch of Dublin

Harold Bompas Esqre
121 Westbourne Terrace
W.2

EPITAPH
on Dr. Buckland

Mourn Ammonites mourn, o'er his funeral urn
Whose neck ye will grace no more
Gneiss, Granite and Slate, he settled your date
And this ye must now deplore

Weep caverns weep with infiltering drip
Your recesses he'll cease to explore;
For Mineral veins and Organic remains
No stratum again will he bore

His wit shone like Chrystal, his knowledge profound
From Gravel to Granite descended,
No Trap could deceive him, no Slip could confound
or Specimen true or pretended

He know the Birth-Rock of each pebble so round
and how far its Tour had extended

His Eloquence flowed like the Deluge retiring
Which Mastodon carcases floated
To a subject obscure he gave charms so inspiring
Young and old on Geology doated
He stood forth like an Outlier his hearers admiring
With pencil each anecdote noted

Where shall we our great Professor inter
That in peace may rest his Bones
If we hew him a rocky Sepulchre
He'll rise and break the Stones
And examine each Stratum that lies around
For he's quite in his Element underground

If with Mattock and Spade his body we lay
in the common Alluvial soil
He'll start up and snatch those Tools away
Of his own geological Toil
In a Stratum so young the Professor distains
That imbedded should be his Organic Remains

Then exposed to the drip of some [case?] hardening Spring
His Carcase let Stalactite cover
and to Oxford the petrified Sage we will bring
When he is incrusted all over

There mid Mammoths and Crocodiles high on a Shelf
Let him stand as a Monument raised to Himself

(on Dr. Buckland LLD
reader in Geology Oxford)

Note on outside says 'Miss Mitford's Autograph'

Feb 26 1837
Professor Buckland
Oxford
from Edw. Chalmers

Aug. 6 1847
Miss/Mrs Buckland
Islip
Oxford

1825 the Revd [Professor Buckland?]
Oxford

London June 1880
J.C. Fisher Esq
CCC Oxford