FRANCIS HAMILTON (ONCE BUCHANAN), liti 
retirement, in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and the Edinbw 
a series of papers explanatory of maps in which he had tau 
record the information they possessed. 
blanks that had previously existed in the 
‘gh Journal of Science, in 
ght travelled Burmese to 
By this means Hamilton filled the complete 
charts of Indo-China, and fixed even remote 
, асси : i i 
dealing with Pegu, which was not necessar ma A Ea a p 
геру the accuracy of the information contai 
7 l tained 
in the other maps might be estimated. The painstaking work of Hamilton in this 
geographical study has stood the severe test of subsequent exploration and survey 
work in a wonderful manner, the only cardinal error into which he fell was A 
fashionable geographical belief of the time that the waters of the Sanpo reached 
the sea by way of the Irrawaday. Besides these papers on maps there is a short 
note on the rivers of Burma, contributed by Hamilton, which is incorporated in 
Symes’ work. 
While stationed at Puttahaut in 17 96, Hamilton contributed a zoological paper 
to the Linnean Society which was published in the Society's Transactions in 1800.3 
This paper, as we find from his letters, was at first not considered suitable for the 
Asiatick Researches, but when subsequently it was asked for, Hamilton could not give 
it to the Asiatic Society as he had already promised it to Smith. Another zoolo- 
gical paper, written in 1798, was published in the same periodical.‘ Hamilton did 
not write any other papers during his Indian Service; his copious notes on fishes, 
collected while he was stationed at Puttahaut and ай Baruipur, were incorporated 
in his Account of the Gangetic Fishes, the publication of which will be referred to 
further on. The ethnological, geographical and historical portions of his Chittagong 
journal of 1798 formed the basis of a series of papers published in the Edinburgh 
Journal of Science in 1895 and 1826 The first of the papers of this series, which 
deals mainly with Tippera, is stil our chief authority for that territory; the 
1 Account of a map of the countries subject to the King of Ava, drawn by a slave of the King’s eldest son: 
Edinb. Phil. Journ, ii. 1820. ; 
Account of a map of the route between Tartary and Amarapura: Edinb. Phil. Journ, iii. 1820. 
Account of a map of the country north from Ava: Edinb. Phil. Journ. iv. 1821. 
Account of a map, constructed by a native of Taunu, of the country south from Ava: Edinb. Phil. Journ. v. 1821. 
Account of a map of the country between the Erawadi and the Khien duan rivers: Edinb. Phil. Journ. vi, 1822. 
Aecount of a map, by a slave to the heir-apparent of Ava: Edinb. Phil. Journ. vi, 1822, 
An account of а map of the Tarout Shan Territory: Edinb. Phil. Journ. vii. 1822. 
Account of a map of the vicinity of Paukgan or Pagan: Edinb. Phil. Journ, vii. 1829. | 
Account of a map drawn by a native of Dawa or Tavay : Edinb. Phil. Journ. ix. 1823, 
Account of two maps of Yænmæ or Yangoma: Edinb. Phil. Journ. x. 1824. 
An account of the map of Koshanpri: Edinb. Phil. Journ. x. 1824. 
Account of а map of Upper Laos or the territory of the Lowa Shan: Edinb. Journ. Sci. i. 1821. 
Account of а map of the kingdom of Респ: Edinb. Journ. Sci. i. 1824. 
2 Symes: Embassy, Ed. i. p. 241. 
з Ап account of the Onchidium, а new genus of the class of Vermes, found in Bengil: Trans. Lian, бос, 
" Lond, т. 
* Description of the Vespertilio plieatus: Trans. Linn. S». Lond. v. 
5 An account of the Frontier between part of Bengal and the Kingdom of Ava; Edinb: Journ. Sci. ii. 1825, 
An account of the Frontier between Ата and the part of Bengal adjacent to the Karnaphuli river: Edinb, 
Journ. Sei ilii, 1329. 
An account of the Frontier between the southern part of Bengal and the Kingdom of Ava: Edinb, Jomrn, 
Set. iii. 1825; iv. 1826. 
