The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



NO. I 4 ] 1895 [APRIL 



THE LATE FRANCIS BUCHANAN WHITE. 



WITH PORTRAIT. 



FRANCIS BUCHANAN WHITE was the elder son of Dr. Francis 

 I. White, who was for years one of the leading physicians in 

 Perth, where he still lives, though retired from medical prac- 

 tice. F. Buchanan White was born in Perth on 2oth March 

 1842. He was educated there for a time at St. Ninian's 

 College, and subsequently by a private tutor. Going to the 

 University of Edinburgh, he entered on the study of Medicine, 

 and graduated as M.D. in 1864; receiving commendation 

 for his thesis, which bore the title of " On the Relations, 

 Analogies, and Similitudes of Insects and Plants." His love 

 for the pursuits to which he largely devoted himself in later 

 years showed itself about the age of twelve, when he com- 

 menced to collect Lepidoptera and to study Botany. His 

 earliest contribution in print appeared in the " Entomologist's 

 Weekly Intelligencer" about 1857; but his notes in this 

 journal are all very brief. 



After his marriage in 1866, he and Mrs. White spent a 

 year travelling on the Continent, during which they visited 

 France, Italy, and Switzerland, and he added largely to his 

 collection of Lepidoptera. His experiences are narrated in 

 " Lepidoptera observed during an Excursion in Italy and 

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