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- 3 Dec 1875 (Produção)
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Better known as Frank Buckland, he was an English surgeon, zoologist, author and natural historian. He was born in a noted family of naturalists. Frank was the first son of Canon William Buckland, a geologist and palaeontologist, and Mary Morland, a fossil collector.
He studied surgery under Caesar Hawkins at St George's Hospital. During this time he became acquainted with Abraham Dee Bartlett, Superintendent of London Zoo, who would send him dead animals at the zoo and he continued to keep many animals. Buckland was made a MRCS in 1851. He was appointed House Surgeon at St George's in 1852. He left St George's in 1853 and in August 1854 he joined the 2nd Life Guards as an assistant surgeon. This appointment left him time for his growing interest in natural history. Buckland gradually gave up medicine and surgery to devote himself to natural history and he was a pioneer of zoöphagy. He was one of the key members and founded of the acclimatisation society in Britain, an organisation that supported the introduction of new plants and animals as food sources which was influenced by his interest in eating and tasting a range of exotic animal meats.
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December 3 1875
Your Royal Highness
Allow me to thank you for very much indeed for the three little hedgehogs one big and two little which arrived all right this morning. The little fellows were certainly in a state of hybernation. The big one is quite tame. I think I shall fat him up and eat him on Christmas Day as a speciality.
Yours most obliged
Frank Buckland
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- Buckland Family (Assunto)
- Buckland, Francis Trevelyan (Assunto)
- Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Christian (Assunto)