Francis Buchanan White

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Francis Buchanan White (20 March 1842 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish entomologist and botanist.

Born in

In 1883, Buchanan White redescribed the known species of the Hemiptera genus Halobates and he illustrated 11 species in colour, with numerous drawings in black and white of structural details. This was one of the parts of the Challenger Report.

Selected publications

• White, F. Buchanan (1877). "Descriptions of new species of heteropterous Hemiptera collected in the Hawaiian Islands by the Rev. T. Blackburn. No. 1". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4. 20 (116): 110–114.
  doi:10.1080/00222937708682204. (See Thomas Blackburn (entomologist)
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• White, F. Buchanan (1878). "Descriptions of new species of heteropterous Hemiptera collected in the Hawaiian Islands by the Rev. T. Blackburn. No. 2". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 5. 1 (5): 365–374.
  doi:10.1080/00222937808682346
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• White, F. Buchanan (1881). "Descriptions of new species of heteropterous Hemiptera collected in the Hawaiian Islands by the Rev. T. Blackburn. No. 3". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 5. 7 (37): 52–59.
  doi:10.1080/00222938109459472
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• "Description of new Anthocoridae". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 16: 142–148. November 1879.
• "A Revision of the British Willows". The Journal of the Linnean Society. 27: 333–457. 1891.
• with J. W. H. Trail: White, Francis Buchanan; Trail, James William Helenus (1898). The Flora of Perthshire.

References

Sources

• Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. London: Taylor & Francis / The Natural History Museum. p. 734.
  ISBN 9780850668438
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• Boulger, George Simonds (1900). "White, Francis Buchanan White" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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