1 А 8КЕТСІ OF THE LIFE OF 
The botanical specimens of the 1807—14 period, as we have seen, were taken home 
and given to the Court of Directors in 1815. They were handed to Buchanan ‘now 
Hamilton) in 1820 for arrangement. А duplieate set of the specimens and а copy of 
the manuscrip: catalogue were given to the University of Edinburgb. The original 
set, and the original MSS. of the catalogue, were sent bick to London in 1822. When 
Wallich reached London with the great East India Company's herbarium he had a сору 
of Buchanan’s manuscript catalogue prepared for his use; this copy is. now in the 
Caleutta Herbarium. Тһе corresponding specimens were incorporated among and distributed 
with the Wallichian plants between 1828 and 1832. А complete set of the plants is 
therefore present in the Wallichian type herbarium, at the rooms of the Linnean Society, 
Other herbaria, recipients of Wallichian duplieate sets, have many of Buchanan's plants, 
but not one of these subsidiary sets is so complete, so far as Buchanan's numbers and 
specimens go, às the original type Wallichian collection. 
In 1808, while stationed at Goalpara, Buchanan brought together a collection of 
timber specimens for transmission to the Honourable Company's Master Builder at 
Kidderpore. The history of the catalogue which accompanied these wood specimens 
belongs to the chapter which follows. 
The collectious of seeds, roots, or living plants sent to the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta during Buehanau’s various journeys were extensive. From Ava, as his letters 
show, more tian twenty species were thus contributed; from the Gangetic delta during 
1796—98 more than one hundred; from Mysore about two hundred; from Nepal about 
one thousand. From Assam in 1508 a considerable number of species were thus sent, 
but from all the other districts surveyed between 1807—14 he sent comparatively few, 
The reasons for this are obvious; the flora of the districts surveyed, except Lower Assam, 
is not very rich; Roxburgh and Carey, too, had, between them, already pretty fully 
explored the greater part of the Lower Provinces and, if not Assam proper, at least a 
good part of Sylhet. The number of those species that eventually survived and proved 
to be new accessions to the Botanic Garden collection may be traced from Roxburgh’s 
Hortus Bengalensis and Flora Indica. From Ava and the Andamans one each are 
recorded ; from the Gangetic Delta in 1796—98 about 20; from Chittagong in 1798 the 
sume ; from Mysore and Malabar about 40; from Nepai 70; from the Gangetic Plain 
during 1867—14 about 90, | 
7. PUBLISHED WORKS AND PAPERS. 
In dealing generally with Hamilton's publications it will be found simpler to 
neglect the sequence of their appearance and to follow rather the sequence of their 
inception, This makes it impossible to separate the few that were published while he 
was still in India from the bulk of his papers, which appeared after his retirement and 
An some cases were edited by others after his death. The list which closes this chapter, 
1 Madden: Elucidation of some plants mentioned in Dr. Francis Hamiltou’s account of the Kingdom of Nepal 
Trans, Bot. Soc. Edinb. v. 116. As Madden points out, the Edinburgh collection is very incomplete so far iom 
plants are concerned. This is because the Edinburgh collection includes only the plants collected in ins ER 
Buchanan s native cvlleetors in 1810 and again in 1813-14, but contains none of the specimens of the main е у 
collection given to Smith and Lambert. Madden appears to have considered the Edinburgh copy of the sapien 
е. 
2 There were 117 different despatch:s of seeds, rhiz? пез, ‘bul’)s, etc, rarely of fewer than six species, often of 
415; 
