THE LATE MR FRANK BUCKLAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2131, 22 December 1880, Page 3

THE LATE MR FRANK BUCKLAND.

The death was announced in our tele* graphic columns yesterday of the abore gentleman. Mr Buckland having been prominently before the public for a length of time, in connection with pisiculture and other branches of natural history, we give the following account of his life taken from “ Men of the Times” : Francis Trevelyan Buckland, M.A., eldest •son of the Very Rav. William Buckland, D:D , Dean of Westminster, bom Deo. 17th, 1626, was scholar of Winchester College and student of Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree in 1848. Inheriting from his father a strong taste for physical science and natural history, he devoted himself to the «tudy of medicine, and having served the office of house surgeon to St. George’s Hospital, became, in 1854, assistant surgeon to tbe 2nd Life Guards, from which post be retired in 1863. He has been an extensive contributor of papers on Fish Culture, and on other branches of natural science, to the columns of the “ Times’ and other periodicals ; and conducts the “Sea and River Fisheries,” and ■“Practical Natural History” columns of “ Land and Water.” He has established at his own expense the “ Museum of Economic Fish Culture” (under the Science and Art Department, South Kensington). This museum illustrates the cultivation of salmon, trout, and useful freeh-water fish, as well as oysters and sea fish. In 1866 he received a silver medal for his labours in the promotion of this branch of science, from the “ Exposition dePcohe et d’Aqnioulture,” at Archachoa, in France; in 1863, the Diploma of Honor from the Havre Exhibition; and in 1877 the Gold Medal from the Royal Aquarium, Westminster. He is the author of “Curiosities of Natural History” (four series); of “Fish-hatching;" and of a “ Familiar History of British Fishes,” 1873; and of tho “ Log Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist,” 1876. He edited, in 1858, his father’s Bridgewater Treatise on Geology and Mineralogy.. In 1859 he, discovered in the vaults of St. Martin’s, Charing Cross, the coffin of the great surgeon and physiologist, John Hunter, which was re-interred in Westminster Abbey by the Royal College of Surgeons, For this ho received the thanks of tho

Council of the Royal College of Surgeons and a bound copy of the Catalogue of the Hunterian Museum. The Leeds School of Medicine also presented him with a silver modal. In 1867 he was appointed Inspector of Salmon Fisheries for England and Wales, and he has issued since that date annual reports on these fisheries. In. 1870 he was appointed Special Commissioner to inquire into the effects of recent legislation on the Salmon Fisheries of Scotland. In 1873 he published a report to Parliament on the Fisheries of Norfolk, resulting in the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Act. 1877. In 1877 he was one of a commission to inquire into the Crab and Lobster Fisheries of England and Scotland, resulting in the Fisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act, 1877. He also, in 1877, sat on an inquiry, the result of which was an Act of Parliament, in 1877, to prevent fish ■ being destroyed by dynamite. In 1877 he served on a commission of inquiry into the Herring Fisheries of Scotland. He has been concerned in sending several consignments of salmon eggs to Australia and New Zealand, and principally by his agency, trout are now quite established in those colonies. He is corresponding member of the Deutsche Fischerei-Yerein, at Berlin.