[2] Buchan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1868 and became its Curator in 1878 and served until 1906.

[4] Buchan died at home, 2 Dean Terrace in Stockbridge, Edinburgh on 13 May 1907 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery on the north side of the city.

[5] The Celtic cross marking his grave stands close to a junction on the paths 50m south of the monument to James Young Simpson at the end of the central vaults.

[8] His niece, Jessie Hill Buchan, an expert calculator, was his assistant until her death in 1905.

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