George Bowdler Buckton

British entomologist
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IntroBritish entomologist
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasZoologist Entomologist
Work fieldBiology
Gender
Male
Birth24 May 1818, London, UK
Death25 September 1905 (aged 87 years)
Star signGemini
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society 
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Biography

George Bowdler Buckton (24 May 1818, London – 25 September 1905, Haslemere, Surrey) was an English entomologist who specialised in aphids.

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 Hemiptera. In 1867, he was elected a member of the Royal Society. 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 tenax or the Drone-Fly (Macmillan & Co., London, 1895).
  • A Monograph of the Membracidae, with an article by Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856-1943) (Lovell Reeve & Co., London, 1901-1903).

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