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Fig. 1. Portraits of Edgar Buckingham (a) at age 20; (b) with daughter Katharine, circa 1905, during the time of his soil-physics work at the BOS; (c) in 1923; and (d) on unknown date. The scar visible on his cheek in (b) was the result of an abscess and surgeries performed to treat it during 1893–1895 (Buckingham 1900b). The photograph (c) was published by Gardner (1986) and (d) was published in the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1941a). Photographs (a), (b), and (c) courtesy of Thomas K. Hunt.
