FRANCIS HAMILTON (ON Ç ii 
LTON (ONCE BUCHANAN). XXXVH 
With the commencement of his Indian service in 1793 opportunities for collecting 
presented themselves, and he appears both to have made collections and kept тойга 
during the whole of his Indian career, though, just as in his student days, he made 
no permanent personal collection, preferring to give away the whole to his friends. 
Further he appesrs to have been somewhat chary of collecting duplicates and to hare 
been inclined to rely on good drawings accompanied by field descriptions as equivalent 
to actual specimens. 
Dealing first with Hamilton’s journals we find now no trace of any that may 
have been kept between 1785 and 1791 and only surmise their existence from the 
occurrence of two papers, published in the Euiaburgh Philosophical Journal for 1821, 
The journal kept while he was attached to the Embassy to Ava, under Symes, 
in 1795, was never published in full Two copies of it were made and retained ia 
Calcutta; one of these was placed in the Home office, the other in the office 
of the Surveyor-General. . Both copies had disappeared before 1857 ; whether the 
original which was sent to the Court of Directors be in the India Office Library 
now, is unknown. Much of the information contained in this journal has, however, 
been made available. Тһе philological, ethnological and  historieal portions were 
published in two papers in the Aséatick Researches for 1798 and 1799. Тһе geo- 
graphical portion was communicated to the Surveyor-General and was used by 
Dalrymple along with the results of the surveys executed by  Hamilton's colleague 
Lieutenant Wood of the Bengal Engineers, in preparing a map to accompany Symes’ 
account of he embassy.” А short geographical passage from the journal is given by 
Symes but the bulk of the geographical material was extracted and arranged by 
Buchanan himself in 1796-97; it was not, however, published till 1820—24, in the 
form of a series of thirteen papers, descriptive of maps he had obtained from 
natives of Burma. This series of papers appeared in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 
and the Edinburgh Journal of Science, 
The journal kept during the survey of Chittagong in 1798, which was undertaken 
at Roxburgh’s instance by order of the Board of Trade at Calcutta, seems to have 
disappeared, It was submitted to Fleming, who acted as Superintendent of the Botanic 
Garden during Roxburgh’s absence on leave in 1798-99, and by Fleming was forwarded | 
to Government. The historical, ethnological and geographical information it contained 
was published in a series of three papers in the Edinburgh Journal of Science during 
1825-26. 
The journal kept during the journey in Mysore in 1800-01 was transmitted to 
the Court of Directors, by whom it was ordered to be published. ‘his journal therefore 
has to be dealt with in the next chapter. U 
Тһе whereabouts of the journal made during the journey to, and residence In, 
Nepal during 1802-03 are not known. The information it contained, along with 
information subsequently acquired оп the Nepal-Purnea frontier ш 1810 and on the 
Nepal-Gorakhpur frontier in 1818-14 and embodied in Buchanan's journals for these 
two years, formed the basis of the descriptive account of the Kingdom of Nepal 
| Yule: Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855, p. 963. 
3 Symes: Embassy, Preface: Hamilton, Edinb. Philosoph. Journ. M. 90, 
3 Symes: Embassy, p. 241. 
