Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White
1842–94
Scottish botanist and entomologist. MD, Edinburgh, 1864, but did not practise. Founder member, Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 1867; president, 1867–72. Founder and editor, Scottish Naturalist, 1871–82. Founder and secretary, Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, 1874. Wrote the report on pelagic Hemiptera for the Challenger expedition, and on the flora and fauna of Perthshire.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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