THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3741, 21 December 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1880.

Bl our cablegrams it will be seen that Frank Buckland, the eniinent,naturalisb and ichthyologist, has gone over to the Great Majority: Mr BucUand was a most' assiduous writer, and no doubt many of our readers bare read hi* papers on natural history iv the Times, Field, Land and Water, and «evaral other newspapers of h:gh repute in the old country. The following i* a short account of Mr Buck* land's career. He was the oldest son of the Rer. William Buckland, D.D., and was bora

in 1826. He graduated B A. at Ohristchurrh, Oxford, in 1848 He inherited from his father a Btrong taste for physical science and natural history. He contributed a number of papers to the Times and other periodicals on pueiculture and other branches of natural science. In 1866, he received a til ver medal for h:s labours in the promotion of the branch of Bcienoe. He is the author of "Curio-ities of Natural History," "Fish Hatching," etc. In 1859 he discovered in the vaults of St. Martin's, Charing Cross, the coffin of the groat surgeon and physiol< gist, John Hunter, which waß reinterred in West minister Abbey by the Royal College of Sureeons. F>r this he received the thanks of the Council of the R.C.S., and a bound enpy of the catalogue of thiHunteiian Museum. The Leeda School of Medicine also presented him with a silver medal. Besides being the author of numerous treatises and works, Mr Bu-Uand was mainly instrumental in bringing the parliamentary regulations as to the close season of fish. He was of a jovial temperament, and most agreeable writer, and the newspapers will sustain a severe loss through his decease.