George Bowdler Buckton
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George Bowdler Buckton was an English
entomologist who specialised in aphid
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He was assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann
(1818-1892) at the Royal College of Chemistry
in London. He wrote scientific papers on chemistry until 1865 when he moved to Haslemere and started to study Homoptera
. In 1867, he was elected a member of the Royal Society
. He wrote :
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
entomologist who specialised in aphid
Aphid
Aphids, also known as plant lice and in Britain and the Commonwealth as greenflies, blackflies or whiteflies, are small sap sucking insects, and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Aphids are among the most destructive insect pests on cultivated plants in temperate regions...
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He was assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist.-Biography:Hofmann was born at Gießen, Grand Duchy of Hesse. Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at Göttingen. But he then turned to chemistry, and studied under Justus von...
(1818-1892) at the Royal College of Chemistry
Royal College of Chemistry
The Royal College of Chemistry was a college originally based on Oxford Street in central London, England. It operated between 1845 and 1872....
in London. He wrote scientific papers on chemistry until 1865 when he moved to Haslemere and started to study Homoptera
Homoptera
Homoptera is a deprecated suborder of order Hemiptera; recent morphological studies and DNA analysis strongly suggests that the order is paraphyletic. It was therefore split into the suborders Sternorrhyncha, Auchenorrhyncha, and Coleorrhyncha....
. In 1867, he was elected a member of the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
. He wrote :
- Monograph of the British Aphides (four volumes, London, 1876-1883).
- Monograph of the British Cicadæ or Tettigidae (two volumes, Macmillan & Co., London, 1890-1891).
- The Natural History of Eristalis tenaxEristalis tenaxEristalis tenax is a European hoverfly, also known as the drone fly . It has been introduced into North America and is widely established....
or the Drone-Fly (Macmillan & Co., London, 1895). - A Monograph of the Membracidae, with an article by Edward Bagnall PoultonEdward Bagnall PoultonSir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection...
(1856-1943) (Lovell Reeve & Co., London, 1901-1903).
External links
- Buckton, George Bowdler (1818-1905), entomologist by Robert Steele, rev. Yolanda Foote in Dictionary of National BiographyDictionary of National BiographyThe Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...