Frank Buckland: Not all is lost!
Vicki Brown writes:
I noticed in this article on your website [a short version of Sally Shelton's article about the great eccentric Frank Buckland; the full article is in the Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 6, no. 6] that it’s stated that “his museum collections were broken up and largely disappeared, and much of the work he did is forgotten.”
Just for the record, the Scottish Fisheries Museum hold the Buckland collection of fishing implements, fish casts, taxidermy and papers. The ideals of his work are continued by the Buckland Foundation which provide a focus for aquaculture, fisheries, and marine environmental research and annually a paper is given under the name of the Buckland Lecture.
We are currently fundraising to have conservation work done so we can make a more permanent display of the life and work of the late great Frank Buckland.
Just to let you know!
