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logue of the Plants growing in the Hon. East India Com- 
pany's Botanic Garden at Calcutta," Dr. Roxburgh's health 
obliged him to visit St. Helena, and eventually Europe, where 
he died; leaving unpublished valuable materials for a Flora 
Indica. A part, at least, of these, Dr. Carey undertook to 
give to the world, in 2 vols. 8vo., which appeared in 1820 
and 1824, and which extend to the end of the Class Pentan- 
dria and Order Monogynia ofthe Linnean System. Here, 
likewise, were included many plants, first made known by 
the exertions of Dr. Wallich and Dr. Jack, whose merits are 
beyond all praise, and the former of whom will be more von 
ticularly mentioned hereafter. 
For a short interval, Dr. Francis Buchanan, who after- 
wards took the name of Hamilton, was appointed to the care 
of the Botanic Garden. His extensive travels, first to the 
Court of Ava, when he had the opportunity of seeing the 
kingdom of Pegu and the Andamman Isles, then over the 
greater part of the Peninsula, and into Nepal, gave him 
facilities for studying the plants of an immense extent of 
Indian territory, and many species, drawings, and descrip- 
tions were sent by him to Europe, and deposited, either in 
the museum of Sir Joseph Banks, Sir J. E. Smith, or of the 
East India Company. Some of his plants were published 
by Sir J. E. Smith in his Exotic Botany; while the Nepal 
Collections, together with many from Dr. Wallich, consti- 
tute the materials from which was published the Prodromus 
Flore Nepalensis, by Mr. D. Don. Many Botanical me- 
moirs, relative to the vegetable productions of India, were 
given by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton to the "Transactions of the 
Linnean Sociéty. In the same work has appeared his 
learned Commentary on the Hortus Malabaricus ; and in the 
Transactions of the Wernerian Society, his Commentary on 
the Herbarium Amboynense. After suffering much from ill 
health, and after enriching various Transactions with his 
remarks on different subjects, both scientific and literary, 
this able naturalist died in the autumn of last year, (1829,) at 
his beautiful seat of Leny, in Scotland. 
The circumstance of Dr. Wallich being appointed as suc- 
