Florence Buchanan

Career Museum Professional / Natural Historian / Scientist

Biography She seems to have been based in the University Museum of Natural History from 1895-1908. In 1907 she was a Fellow of University College, London. She worked in comparative anatomy and physiology on muscles. In the 1901 census she is aged 33, born in London and then living in St Giles ward, Oxford and described as a Zoologist and Lecturer [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 08/12/2006]

Biography References http://www.mba.ac.uk/nmbl/archives/catalogue/mba.htm

Clubs & Societies British Association for the Advancement of Science

County No counties listed

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Dates active ?1868-? active 1895-1908

Donated around 1922

English collections Early microscope (on loan to the Museum of the History of Science)

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 1