PRANCIS HAMILTON (ONCE BUCHANAN), xlix 
; we know that though they did not go home in 
time to be of use for Buchanan in 1820-22, or if they did go home before 1820 they were 
not given to him then, they certainly ultimately went home, for there is no botanical drawing 
made by Buchanan in the Botanical Garden now, and the collection there has not 
even Hare's copies of any of Hamilton’s original drawings of plants. 
Buchanan’s bulky archeological collections went apparently to the Asiatic Society’s 
museum at Calcutta. Beveridge in the Calcutta Review from July 1894 has cleared 
up satisfactorily the story of the disinterment of two statues now in the Indian 
Museum, and there is a letter fiom Buchanan, in Wallich’s correspondence, recording 
the gift to the Asiatic Society of four carved stones, One, containing numerous 
figures of Buddha, was found in the ruins of Rajagriha, the city of Javersanda in 
Behar; the other three were found near the Kavatiya river in the southern part of . 
Dinajpur, 
The manuscripts that are associated in the Asiatic Society’s collection with the 
four volumes of zoological drawings are in two folio volumes, one of which is endorsed 
by Wallich :— 
“Dr. Buchanan’s Zoological М83. deposited in the Botanie Garden іп 1815.” 
The descriptions and notes are mostly but not always in Buchanan’s hand- 
writing; they appear with few exceptions to be rough drafts from which finished accounts 
might afterwards have been prepared. A few are copies of finished descriptions in 
another handwriting. Some but not all are dated. Of the dated ones, some are from 
Barrackpore, 1804, others are of later dates up to and including Gorakhpur, 1814. 
The existence now of zoological specimens connected with much of Bucharan’s 
work in India appears to be doubtful. Günther states that the types of the кейн 
to which his drawings refer have been lost? But Day appears to question this,’ 
and refers to a passage in a liritish Museum Catalogue* which suggests that at least 
some of these types may be in the Natural History Museum, The question is one on 
which the writer can form no opinion. 
"s (t ilton’s) figures being copies of gures by Hardwicke. It was 
1 Gi ks of some of Buchanan's (then Hamilton's) i SRE ; 
f со ied HON figures that were copied by Hardwicke. M'Clelland says, General Hardwicke did = hsec "reti 
ocn ; but as a matter of fact ће did this with the consent of Buchanan, according at е foire "m чт жен 
ni шу Wallich’s consent. But Hardwicke and Buchanan were intimate friends, а i pro 
accurate. ` 
* Zoological Record for 1869, p. i 
3 Proc. As. Soc. Beng. for 1871, p. 197. 8 а 
* Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum iii. p. iv. (1861). 
