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Francis Trevelyan Buckland



 

Francis Trevelyan Buckland (17 December, 1826 - 19 December, 1880), was an English zoologist, the son of William Buckland, the noted geologist and palaeontologist.

Buckland was born and educated at Oxford, where his father was a Canon of Christ Church. He studied medicine and was assistant-surgeon in the Life Guards. An enthusiastic lover of natural history, he wrote largely upon it, among his works being Fish Hatching (1863), Curiosities of Natural History (4 vols. 1857-72), Log Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist (1876) and Natural History of British Fishes (1881). He also founded and edited the periodical Land and Water. He was for a time Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, and served on various commissions. Though observant, he was not always strictly scientific in his methods and modes of expression, and he was a strong opponent of Charles Darwin.

He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[1]

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.


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