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notes and papers were written, it may be remarked, before 1800, and except for the 
journal of his Mysore journey, the publieation of which did not primarily Test with 
himself, nothing that he wrote was given to the publie, after 1800, until he had 
retired from India and could devote himself to the arrangement of the voluminous 
memoranda collected by him between 1795 and 1814. 
Buchanan’s formal retirement took place, after he had reached Europe, on 14th 
August 1316, with which date his direct connection with India and his lien on the 
Superintendentship of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta ceased. 
5. LIFE AFTER RETIREMENT. 
In an interesting article on the Buchanan Retords in the Calcutta Review for 
1894 Buchanan’s life after retirement is briefly summarised." He survived his return 
to Seotland for many years and resided during most of the time at Leny near 
Callander. He married late in Ше, had children, and occupied himself in gardening ; 
he published, in 1819, а book of which only 50 copies were printed, consisting of 
tables of Hindu dynasties extracted from the Puranas, &c., by his pandit. This 
sketch, though not inaccurate, is hardly adequate as an account of Buchanan’s life 
during the fourteen years which he devoted to rendering ‘accessible to the world, so 
far as he could, the results of observations made during the previous thirty years. 
Buchanan reached England about August 1815. Не was apparently аб first 
well received at the East India House, though he seems subsequently to have been 
indifferently treated. Soon after his arrival he received the greeting from Lord Wellesley 
contained in the following letter, dated East Clif Lodge, Friday, September 8th, 1815, 
in which the feelings entertained for Buchanan by his former chief are shown :— 
^I sincerely congratulate you on your safe return to Europe, and I trust that your native air 
and a season of repose from labour will soon recover your strength. 
lt would have afforded me great pleasure to have seen you and to have learnt from so good 
ап authority what is really the present condition of India; а subject in which I feel 8 warm 
interest. Whenever you may be at liberty, I shall be happy to see you; if I should be at this 
place, I can always give you a room and your society would be particularly acceptable to me. 
SCRI I can render you any service, I shall be happy to receive ` your commands; being always, 
dear Sir, with the most sincere wishes for your prosperity and welfare, and with the greatest 
respect for your talents, attainments, and integrity, your faithful and obliged servant.” 
Buchanun’s early tastes appear to һауе been for а country life and his long 
experience of Indian camps must have aggravated his natural dislike for the cramped 
conditions of existence in а city. He therefore left London for Seotland with the 
intention of settling somewhere near Callander and Leny where he appears to have 
thought of building a house. While passing through London he appears to have 
! Calcutta Review, July 1894. In this part of a careful article Mr. Beveridge thinks that Buchanan might 
have done more than he did to induce the Court of Directors to make the valuable results of his last survey 
work available. Beveridge's reference to a letter from Buchanan, dated 8th February 1820, *in a feeble hand-writing ' 
conveys the impression that after his retirement Buchanan was ‘used up’ by his Indian service occupying Мз 
waning intelligence with trivialities like garden shrubs and genealogical trees. Instead, however vt тумба what 
Buchanan might have done, it may be well io form some estimate of what he actually did Mie his retirement. 
