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and was published in ibe Eoyal Society's ' Proceedings,' 18G5. A. 

 list will be found in that Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 

 which however omits his paper in the ' Zoologist,' xiv. 1854, 

 pp. 436-438, on Cyanide of Potassium for killing insects. 



It was on December 16tb, 1845, that Buckton became a Fellow 

 of the Linnean Society, coming into contact with Yarrell, West- 

 wood, Wilson Saunders, Owen, Huxley, the Hookers, and other 

 naturalists, and contributions from his pen are to be found in our 

 Proceedings, Journals, and Transactions. 



In 1852 he was made a Fellow of the Chemical Society ; and in 

 1857 was elected to the E-oyal Society, becoming a member of the 

 Philosophical Club of that Society, whose meetings he attended 

 with great interest (in spite of the effort any journey entailed) till 

 extreme old age compelled him to relinquish them. In 1883 he 

 became a member of the Entomological Society ; and later of the 

 Entomological Society of France, and of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. 



In 1865 Buckton married Mary Ann, the only sister of his 

 friend Professor W. Odling of Oxford. He purchased the estate 

 of Weycombe, Haslemere, Surrey, then a rural village, where he 

 built himself a stone-gabled house, according to his own designs,^ 

 taking with him his observatory and transit instruments. Here 

 he lived for the remainder of his peaceful and happy married life. 

 Of his eight children, five daughters and a son are still living. 



From this time, though he kept his chemical laboratoiw and lathe- 

 room and gave private lectures to his children and his friends, he 

 devoted himself to Natural History, beginning with a study of the 

 Parthenogenesis of Aphides, which resulted in four volumes on 

 British Aphides for the Eay Society, 1876-1883, with profuse illus- 

 trations made under the camera hicida, which he lithographed on 

 blocks of stone and coloured with his own hand. This was the first 

 of his valuable sei'ies of Entomological monographs relating chiefly 

 to the obscure and somewhat neglected suborder Homoptera. In 

 1890 he published his Monograph of Britisli Cicad^e, or Tettigidaj 

 (2 vols., Macmillan), in which he was helped by his children, who 

 collected specimens and worked at the colouring of many of the 

 plates. This was followed by the ' Natural Historj^ of ErisfaUs 

 tenax, or the Drone-fly ' (published by Macmillan, 1895), and finally 

 by a large and important work on the Membracidse of the Woi'ld 

 (Lovell Reeve & Co., 1901-1903), the Supplement to which, with 

 many drawings, was finished for the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society only two months before the author's death. The original 

 plates of the Monograph have been presented to the Hope Museum, 

 Oxford. His lightness of hand in setting his many hundred slides 

 was remarkable. Often in laying out the delicate nervous 

 organisation of an insect, he would take for the purpose the sting 

 of a wasp, as the finest procurable tool. 



Various societies and museums, abroad and in the colonies, were 

 in communication with him, and he had a wide correspondence. 



