= William Buckland
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<William Buckland> was a <geologist> and <paleontologist> whose 1824 description of <Megalosaurus> became the first full published account of an animal later recognized as a <dinosaur>. The work treated large <fossil> bones from Stonesfield, including a lower jaw now preserved at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The surviving specimen connects the historical interpretation directly to an object that can still be re-examined.https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/william-buckland[Section describing the 1824 paper and the original Megalosaurus jaw in the museum collections]{ref}
<Mary Buckland>, then Mary Morland, contributed the jaw illustration to the <Megalosaurus> account; careful scientific drawing was part of recording the <fossil> evidence. <William Buckland>'s later <Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland> explicitly placed <geology> and <mineralogy> within a natural-theological project. These historical commitments should be distinguished from the specimen descriptions and other evidence that later researchers could test.https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/william-buckland[Mary Morland's illustrations and work on the specimens]{ref}
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