Francis Trevelyan Buckland

Francis Trevelyan Buckland, better known as Frank Buckland ( born December 17, 1826 in Oxford, † December 1880 ) was an English surgeon and journalist.

Life

Buckland was a son of William Buckland. He studied from 1844 to 1848 to BA in Christ Church, Oxford and then completed his medical education at St. George 's Hospital. After graduating in 1851, he worked as a surgeon in this hospital, gave the post but after just one year on and hit the career in journalism. His popular science articles were mainly known for the book edition entitled Curiosities of Natural History. The plant underwent 15 editions and was gradually supplemented by three additional volumes.

Bucklands particular interest was the fish. In 1863 he gave a lecture on fish farming at the Royal Institution; little later he taught in the South Kensington Museum, later, the Science Museum emerged from the a presentation on this subject. Since 1865 he had also collected exhibits for his Museum of Economic Fish Culture. From 1867 he also worked as a " Salmon Inspector ". In competition with the magazine " The Field ", he established the "Land and Water".

Doings

As Buckland in 1859 learned that you could investigate and remove coffins from the Crypt of St. Martin-in -the-Fields, he identified the coffin of John Hunter and made ​​sure that this was buried in Westminster Abbey. According to Christine Quigley his inquiring mind led to the occasional unusual actions. Buckland tasted the meat of different animal species and put it also in other people. He also stole loud Quigley the heel bone by Ben Jonson from its grave, identified the relics of St. Rosalia in Palermo as goat bones, exposed persons such as PT Barnum, the alleged Mermaids flaunting, and examined the mummy of Julia Pastrana. However, he was also able to suspend eels in public fountain for fun.

Buckland provisions in his will that after the death of his wife 5,000 pounds should be used out of its assets to the Foundation Professor of "Economic Fish Culture ". The first lectures, which were financed by this project took place in 1930.

Among his acquaintances included Chang and Eng Bunker, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Hyrtl, Martin van Buren Bates and Anna Swan.