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another there are four handsomely bound volumes of drawings, ete. The first of these contains 
the costumes of Bihar; the second, figures and architecture; the third, maps and plans; and the 
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TRE dh E^ see that the twenty-one large volumes of manuseript which Sir 
W. W. Hunter brought to India have been safely replaced in the India Office. But 
of the seven statistical volumes that were lent to Hunter, Beveridge was only | shown 
one; possibly the others are present in another book-case. It is clear from this, too, 
that Hunter did not bring the four volumes of drawings ilustrative of Buchanan’s 
text temporarily back to India. 
Turning now to Buchanan’s collections of natural history specimens, drawings and 
descriptions, as apart from his journals, we find no proof that prior to 1785 he did 
more than collect mosses. Тһе specimens were given to his friend and fellow-student 
Smith, in whose collection they were between 1806—09, as references in English Botany 
show, and these specimens may be in Smith's collection still. 
We have no evidence that collections were made between 1785 and 1793. 
Drawings, however, accompany one of Buchanan’s published papers—that dealing with 
water-spouts—taken from notes of this period. 
During the Ava journey of 1795 extensive botanical collections were made, with a 
good many drawings and notes. All these were sent to the Court of Directors іп 
Lordon, Buchanan, however, keeping partly coloured copies of most of the drawings 
and a copy of the notes. With the assistance of his notes and drawings he prepared 
an account of the plants of Ava, which was finished by the middle of August 1796, 
The Court of Directors made over tne collection to Sir Joseph Banks, then President 
of the Royal Society, to whom, as bis letters explain, Buchanan also subsequently gave 
the manuscript account of the plants of Ava alludel to above. Banks, we know, 
selected—Symes says also described—a number of these Ava plants and drawings for 
pub.ication in Symes' aecount of his embassy. The specimens were incorporated in 
Banks’ herbarium, so that all of them should now be in the British Museum (Natural 
History) collection. 
Buchanan’s period of residence at Puttahaut (Luckipur) was largely occupied in 
zoological research, Не kept on his old artist to make drawings, chiefly of fishes. 
In some instances he was evidently unable to preserve his zoological specimens and 
had to be satisfied with drawings, but it appears that of some, if not all, the fishes, 
specimens were preserved in spirits. 
The botanical collection made during the visit to Chittagong in 1798 was sent 
to the Court of Directors and the specimens, as in the case of the Ava ones, were 
by them made over to Sir Joseph Banks. These specimens should therefore also be, 
with the other Banksian collections, in the British (Natural History) Museum, 
Owing to Roxburgh’s absence from India, the stay at Baruipur and the journeys 
in the Sundribuns during 1798 and 1799 were not utilized in making a botanical 
collection, but drawings and descriptions were obtained as usual. These were sent to 
Buchanan’s friend Smith, in whose collection they ought still to be. The lull in his 
botanical activity was compensated for by increased devotion to the с 
ing and describing of fishes, 
During the Mysore journey considerable mineralogical 
were made. The bulk of these were presented to Lord 
ollecting, draw- 
and geological collections 
Wellesley, who subsequently 
