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During Buckley's time male scientists often had female assistants and this allowed the females to include some of their findings in the lead scientists work. The women themselves generally would not be labelled scientists thus not receiving any acknowledgement.

Being Charles Lyell's assistant and a female put her in good standing to educate the youth. Buckleys, The Fairy-Land of Science, puts her views of science in a children book setting, much like a mother educating her child. Her work was labeled as lectures rather than chapters mirroring how she would teach the youth. Her lecture, The Two Great Sculptures - Water and Ice, emphasizes how water and ice create hills, crevasses and valley ways much like a sculptor will create a statue using a chisel. It also describes how water always needs somewhere to go and often takes part of the land with it, causing cliffs to fall apart leaving faults and intrusions behind.