222 INDIAN CYPRINID#. 
something on which the natural arrangement of fishes might be founded. 
In those Carps whose mouths are constructed for the collection of vegetable 
Holocentrus 2? Kalkaya, B. MS. two figures name changed to ‘ Pterapon Trivittatus’. Cottus 
chaka, B. MS. name changed to ‘ Platycephalus chacca’, marked ‘ Natural size’. Checlodipterus 
Bhutibue, B. MS. name changed to ‘ Checlodipterus Butis’, and the species referred to ‘ Hamilton’, 
but nothing said of the source of the two figures. Cyprinus morar B. MS. two figures and Cyprinus 
gora, B. MS. forming an entire folio plate, the name of the latter changed to © Cyprinus cora.’ 
Clupanadon chapra, B. MS. pirated figure called ‘ Alosa chapra N. Indian Ocean’, what the latter 
terms mean I cannot say, as the figure is from Buchanan’s unpublished drawings of Gangetic species ; 
like the remark ‘ natural size’, annexed to Cot¢us chaka, it is certainly calculated to impress the reader 
with the belief that the author had seen the specimens from which the drawings were made. 
Neither of the remarks in question appear on the original drawings, which are characterised in 
Buchanan’s hand writing. 
Buchanan died in 1829. The work to which so much of his labour has been transferred was 
published in 1833, and although no descriptions of the plates have yet appeared, it is no excuse 
for having suppressed the source from whence so many of them at least were derived, especially, 
when it was thought necessary to acknowledge the source of other figures in the same work. 
These circumstances induced me to visit the Botanic Garden, with a view of ascertaining if 
all the other plates in Hardwicke’s Illustrations, as well as those of fishes, were derived 
from the two folio volumes stated to be in the Library of that Institution. The following memo- 
randum which was made on the occasion, must be interesting to all who are in any way connected 
with zoological pursuits. 
“ Botanic Garden, 3d September, 1838. Having obtained the requisite permission, I inspected 
Buchanan’s Zoological MSS., for the first time ;—they seem to contain descriptions and figures of 
the following animals :— 
“ Five species of Siméa, one recently described by Dr. Harlan, in the American Phil: Transac : 
as Simia Hoolook. 
“ Five speciesof Feline, one gray above andspotted beneath, and a Fedisleopardus albus, an Ursus. 
“Six Cervide ; a Cervus niger, Buch. Several species of Mus, two bearing Buchanan’s specific 
names, also an Ichneumon and a Hysterix opeigura, Buch. three species of Capra bearing his specific 
names, as well several species of Tortoises, two species of flying Foxes, two Lacert@, and two Paradoxurz. 
