xxviii A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF 
of à correspondence with Wallich! which continued unbroken till a few months before 
Buchanan’s death. This letter is dated Callander, 4th February 1817. 
“I was some time ago favoured with yours of the 2nd of J. anuary 1816. I would have answered 
it immedistely had I not intended going to London where I might have had an opportunity of 
forwarding your views. І have however now given up all intention of ever visiting England and 
have taken up my abode in the Highlands of Scotland in the vicinity of this where I shall occupy my 
father's house which my elder brother has given me. I am within an easy day's journey of Edinburgh 
from whence vessels sail almost every day for Denmark, so that I shall be scarcely out of your way 
when you return to your native country, and I therefore hope for and expect a visit. In the 
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meantime my situation is so remote from people of influence * = т = that 
I can do you no good in that quarter. The Court of Directors has indeed received my collection with 
such contempt and arrogance that I would neither ask nor receive КТ EST ЖБ 
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My collection would have been received with the utmost thankfulness by the 
most learned bodies here and might have gratified several of the most distinguished. Do not therefors 
throw any of your pearls before swine but collect largely and keep your collection for the learned of 
your own country, who I have no doubt will be thankful. 
I am highly pleased with the engravings and descriptions of the Asclepiades which you sent. The 
workmanship does great credit to the natives and the whole is highly scientific. If you can go on with 
your Hortus Bengalensis you will ensure your reputation as a Botanist and above all will please our 
friend Browne. The expense in this country would be altogether intolerable nor is there at present 
any encouragement for works on natural history so that the first volume of Browne’s Prodromus Florae 
Novae Hollandiae, a most scientific work, finding no sale whatever, he has stopt short, 
I am just now engaged in preparing for the press an account of Nepal, Asam and the Gangetio 
fishes. I remain with great esteem and regard, yours very truly." 
Colonel Hamilton, who had gone abroad for the winter of 1817-18, died on January 
10%, 1818. Buchanan consequently succeeded to the estates of Spittal, Leny and 
Bardowie? and in terms of the entail regulating the succession to Bardowie, assumed 
the name of Hamilton, as we learn from another letter to Wallich, dated ‘Leney,’ 27th 
"I have very lately received your valuable despatch of seeds, whi i i 
Mr. Macnabb, who has charge of the Botanical deis Edinburgh. He а " ы т 
улад rn аз = up very curious plants which are more suited for this climate and which I am 
attempting to naturalize in my hilis and woods, you will much oblige me b i i wi 
a year a dispatch of seeds directed for Mr. William Macnabb, Edinburgh, € ө» 
Esq., No. 5 Meard Street, Dean Street, Soho, London, for which you will find it much easier to Dios 
а conveyance than if the parcels were directed for Mr. Macnabb, Botanical Garden, Edinbureh t 
at Leney, near Callander, N. Britain. M o 
Inclosed I send you a list of those seeds 
whatever else you send will be very agreeable, 
I was very happy to see from your signiog the list of plants tha 
Superintendent, in which situation I am sure зн be both зед ere а с аке 2 
science, I should, however, have great satisfaction in hearing from you often. е 
which Macnabb із most desirous of procuring; but 
"Only those letters of the collections are printed here which throw li ; : 
was for the time being engaged; they enable us to give almost as complete са = ‘oe pap pes 
as we have been able to give of his life in Indis, 5 8 hfe in Scotland 
* He was served heir on 3rd November 1818. The entri ‹ ; 
(or Hamilton), Doctor of Medicine, to his brother, John Жеке s Mule Puertos: gu ges ue 
Ms Her c TV ы provision special in the lands of Kilmatrog, the Tiends of Formiston Quilt red 
Little Leny, ete., Perthshire. 3rd November, 1818 ;” and again : —“ Francis baie с 8. : nl 2 Mes 
to his brother, John Hamilton of Bardowie, who diei loth January, 1818. Heir of Line Special i оте 
Burdston and Botbkennar, Stirlingshire. Dated 3rd November, 1818” t noe b at 
