Life of Frank Buckland / by his brother-in-law, George C. Bompas.

  • Bompas, George C.
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Life of Frank Buckland / by his brother-in-law, George C. Bompas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■Queen, who took interest in this, as in everything affect- ing the welfare of her people, and in the same month he was appointed Fish Culturist to Her Majesty. The Prince of Wales, and other members of the Royal Family, showed a warm interest in his labours to increase the food supply, and in April 1865, the Prince consented to become president of the Acclimatisation Society, Bishop Wilberforce also joining the council. The Prince Christian consulted him on matters affecting the deer and other denizens of Windsor Forest, of which His Royal Highness was ranger. In this year he gave evidence before the Royal Com- mission on sea fisheries, and also before parliamentary committees on the fishery of the Thames, and the oyster- beds of the river Roach, and advised the Home Ofl&ce as to the pollution of rivers, one of the most serious obstacles to the improvement of river fisheries. Other lectures were also given explaining and advo- cating fish and oyster culture, and practical natural history, at the Russell Institution, thrice at the London Institution, at Streatham and Islington, besides country lectures at Southampton, Canterbury, and Worcester. In May 1865, Frank Buckland was appointed Scientific Referee to the South Kensington Museum, and gave there a course of lectures, and of class demonstrations. On receiving this appointment, he commenced at once trans- ferring to the Museum his collection illustrative of fish and oyster culture. He had already shifted all his fish down to the Horticultural Gardens, about 16,500 young fish and eggs, and henceforth devoted much labour and time to the preparation of specimens for the cases, which should illus-