original art: drawing. Frank Buckland, who died in 1880, was a champion of the fishing industry and amassed a large collection related to sea fishing which he either gave or bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum (est. 1857). He appears to have been one of the instigators of the vast International Fisheries Exhibition which between 12 May and the end of September 1883 attracted some 2.7 million visitors in its purpose built campus on the land now covered by Imperial College and the Science Museum, after which a substantial gallery called the 'Museum of Economic Fish Culture' lingered on well into the 1890s on the west side of that site, as part of the South Kensington Museum. This vessel was clearly named after him. [PvdM 3/12]