OBITUARY. 



F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D., F.L.S. 

 Born March 20, 1842. Died December 10, 1894. 



DR. F. BUCHANAN WHITE died suddenly at Annan Lodge, 

 Perth, in which city his father is a doctor, and in which he 

 himself was born. Educated for the medical profession, he graduated 

 with honours at Edinburgh in 1864; but, having a moderate com- 

 petence, instead of entering upon the active duties of a doctor's life, 

 he addressed himself to the study of Natural History and kindred 

 branches of learning. His favourite subjects were Botany and 

 Entomology, and in these he was one of the highest authorities in 

 Scotland. He was the author of part i. of the " Fauna Perthensis," 

 and for many years before his death had been engaged in the pre- 

 paration of a " Flora of Perthshire " ; the latter work, which would 

 have been his crown had he been spared a little longer, will now form 

 a fitting monument of his untiring industry in the laboratory and the 

 field. 



Dr. White's loss will be specially deplored by the members of the 

 Perthshire Society of Natural Science, of which, along with the late 

 Sir Thomas Moncrieff, he was the founder, and in whose affairs 

 during the past quarter of a century he took the keenest interest. 

 For a long succession of years he acted as President of this 

 Society, which has done so much to popularise scientific studies in 

 Perthshire. The Perth Natural History Museum also owes its origin 

 and development chiefly to Dr. White's labours, and it is now justly 

 reckoned one of the most complete and well arranged provincial 

 museums in the country. 



Besides the two books above referred to, Dr. White's contribu- 

 tions to the scientific literature of the day were numerous and varied. 

 He was for many years editor of the Scottish Naturalist, and of the 

 Transactions of the Perthshire Society ; and these publications contain a 

 large number of papers on scientific subjects from his pen. He 

 published a monograph on the collection of Halobates brought home 

 by the "Challenger" expedition, and lately contributed a memoir on 

 British willows to the Journal of the Linnean Society. Of that 

 Society he became a Fellow in 1873. He was also a member of the 

 Entomological Societies both of London and France, Secretary of 

 the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, and Local Secretary of the 



