BUCKERIDGE
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BUCKLE
displays a remarkable talent for clearness of definition and description. It has been of much use in the prep- aration of this Cyclopaedia. His Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining (Lond. 1799, 12mo ; 10th cd. 1842), has likewise gained a great popularity. — Alli- bone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 270.
Buckeridge, John, a Church of England divine and prelate, was born near Marlborough, date un- known. He was educated at Cambridge, and was made D.D. there in 1590. He was afterward rector of North Fambridge, and prebendary of Hereford ; in 1G04 he became archdeacon of Northampton, and vicar of St. Giles's, Cripplegate. Becoming chaplain to the king, he grew rapidly in favor; became president of St. John's College, 1605 ; canon of Windsor, 1G0G ; bishop of Rochester, 1G11, whence he was translated to Ely in 162G, and died May 23, 1631. He was a man of great learning and piety. His writings include De potestate Payee, in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus de- ponendis usurpata, etc. (Lond. 1G14, 4to) ; a Discourse on kneeling at the holy Communion ; and Sermons (1G18). — Hook, Eccles. Biography, ii, 222; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 277.
Bucket O'b'n, deli', or •$)% doll', from hanging down), a vessel to draw water with (Isa. xl, 15); so ctVT\rJna, in John iv, 11 ; spoken metaphorically of a numerous issue (Num. xxiv, 7). See Water.
Ancient Assyrian 'Warrior rutting a Bucket from a Hope hanging from a Pulley in a Fortress.
Buckland, William, D.D., an eminent English geologist. Dr. Buckland was born at Axminster, in
Devon, in the year 1784. He received his early edu- cation at Winchester, and in 1801 obtained a scholar- ship in Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He took his degree of B.A. in 1803, and was elected a fellow of his college in 1808. At this time Oxford was the most unpromising school in the world for natural science. The tastes of young Buckland led him to the study of mineralogy, and in 1813 we find him appointed to the readership of mineralogy, and in 1818 to the reader- ship of geology. In these positions he succeeded in attracting attention to the departments of physical science which he taught. But as he excited interest he also excited opposition, and every onward step that he made toward giving the science of geology a position
in the University, raised an opponent to its claims. Through li is long life he had to fight for his science in his Alma Mater But he gained the victor}-, and Strickland and Phillips, his successors, have obtained a universal recognition of the value and importance of their teachings. In 1820 Dr. Buckland delivered a lecture before the University of Oxford, which was afterward published under the title of Vindicia Geo- logicm; or, the Connection of Religion with Geology ex- plained (Lond. 1823). In this work he showed that there could be no opposition between the works and the word of God. In 1823 he published ReUquia Di- luviance; or, Observations on th Organic Remains attest- ing the Action of a universal Deluge. His contribu- tions to the Proceedings of the (ii-nlngical ,So< ic/y were very numerous, and in the first volume of the " Bib- liographia Geologise et Zoologise," published by the Ray Society in 1848, we find references to sixty-one distinct works and memoirs. In 1825 Dr. Buckland accepted from his college the living of Stoke Charity, near Whitchurch, Hants; in the same year he was promoted to a canonry in the cathedral of Christ Church, and married Miss Mary Morland, of Abing- don. In 1818 he had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society ; and in 1829 he was chosen a member of the council of that body, and was re-elected on each successive occasion till his illness in 1849. In 1813 he became a fellow of the Geological Society, and was twice elected president of that body. He took an ac- tive interest in the foundation of the British Associa- tion for the advancement of science, and was one of those who took the bold step of inviting this body to hold its second meeting in the University of Oxford. On this occasion he was president of the association. From that time to 1848 he was constantly present at the meetings of the body, and read many of his papers before them. In 1847 Dr. Buckland was appointed a trustee of the British Museum, and to( k an active part in the development of that department more especially devoted to geology and palaeontology. His only con- tribution to any branch of theology is his Bridgewater treatise on Geology and Mineralogy considered unth ref- erence to Natural Theology (Lond. 1837, 2d cd. 2 vols. 8vo; Philadel. 1 vol. 12mo; also in Bohn's Library, 12mo). His brain gave way from excessive labor in 1850, but he lingered till Aug. 11, 1856, when he died at Clapham. — London Athene um, No. 1504.
Buckle (iropmj), a clasp or branch, in this instance of gold, sent by Alexander Balas to Jonathan Macca- bauis as a present of honor, in conformity with customs of royal courtesy (1 Mace. x. 89; N-i. 58; romp, xiv, 44: SO Josephus, iropirn, Ant. xiii. 1, 1: 5,4). A sim- ilar usage is referred to byTrebellius Pollio(in clam/.), and the use of such ornaments is illustrated by Pliny (xxxiii, .">); comp. Sehleusiier. Lex.s.v.; Smith, Did. of Class. Ant. s. v. Fibula.