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Authorised form of nameBuist; George (1805 - 1860)
Dates1805 - 1860
NationalityBritish
Place of birthTannadice, Forfarshire, Scotland
Date of birth17 or 22 November 1805
Place of deathCalcutta, India
Date of death01 October 1860
ActivityEducation:
LLD
Career:
Secretary, Geographical Society; Secretary, Agricultural Society of Bombay; Head, Astronomical and Magnetical Observatory, Bombay
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election29/01/1846
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Boase gives birth date as 17 November 1805
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/1447269
Royal Society codeNA1647
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1846/07Buist, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/6/92Letter from Smith [?], East India and Colonial Agency, 65 Cornhill & 4 White Lion Court, London, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly11 June 1860
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
AP/39/36Paper, 'On the causes and phenomena of the repulsion of water from the feathers of water-fowl and the leaves of plants' by George Buist1857
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