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THE son of Prof. James Buckman, a well-known botanist and geologist of his day, Sydney Savory Buckman, born in 1860, early followed in his father's footsteps. His attention was particularly directed to the Brachiopoda and Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite, and so early as 1883 he contributed a paper on the former to the Proceedings of the Dorsetshire Natural History Field Club. Buckman. will, however, be chiefly remembered for his work in connexion with the Ammonites, which he showed could be used as zone fossils for subdividing the Jurassic strata. His study of these was extensive, and a monograph of those from the “Inferior Oolite Series”(never really completed) formed one of the Monographs of the Palseontographical Society (1887-1907), while he further traced their evolution through the successive strata, and in so doing was led to create a multitude of genera and species far beyond what had hitherto been deemed necessary.
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Mr. S. S. Buckman. Nature 123, 419 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123419a0
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