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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Francis Trevelyan Buckland
Born: December 17, 1826
Died: December 19, 1880 (aged 54)
Bio: Francis Trevelyan Buckland, better known as Frank Buckland, was an English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. He was born in a reputed family of naturalists. After a brief career in medicine he took an interest in fishes and other matters.
Known for:
- Curiosities of natural history (1857)
- Curious men
- Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist (1875)