Authorised form of name | Buist; George (1805 - 1860) |
Dates | 1805 - 1860 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Tannadice, Forfarshire, Scotland |
Date of birth | 17 or 22 November 1805 |
Place of death | Calcutta, India |
Date of death | 01 October 1860 |
Activity | Education: LLD Career: Secretary, Geographical Society; Secretary, Agricultural Society of Bombay; Head, Astronomical and Magnetical Observatory, Bombay
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 29/01/1846 |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Notes: Boase gives birth date as 17 November 1805 |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/1447269 |
Code | NA1647 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1846/07 | Buist, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
MC/6/92 | Letter 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, Piccadilly | 11 June 1860 |
MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
AP/39/36 | Paper, 'On the causes and phenomena of the repulsion of water from the feathers of water-fowl and the leaves of plants' by George Buist | 1857 |