lviii A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF 
before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1828, on the structure of various Cucur- 
bitaceous fruits! we know from an allusion in a letter written to Roxburgh from 
Goalpara on 13th June 1808, to belong also to this period. Besides these a useful list 
of timber trees of the Goalpira district, prepared іп 1803, was published by M'Cosh 
in 1837. This list was originally drawn up аз an accompaniment to the collection 
of 90 Assam timbers prepared at Goalpara for the information of the Honourable 
Company’s Master Builder in Calcutta. When in 1828 Wallich took home his large 
collection, it was arranged that he himself, with the aid of botanical friends, should 
undertake the distribution of all herbarium specimens. The timber specimens, 
however, with the sanction of the Court of Directors, were made over to the Society 
of Arts for arrangement and distribution. 
The collection formed the subject of a paper by Aikin, Secretary to the Society, 
in their Transactions for 1831.  Aikin, who had access to Hamilton’s original list of 
Assam timbers, decided, for the sake of its vernacular names and its notices regard- 
ing the various species, to incorporate it in his general list, indicating, however, in 
every case the source of his information.  M'Cosh, having been deputed in 1837 to 
prepare a topographical account of Assam, extracted from  Aikin's list all the entries 
that Aikin had obtained from Hamilton’s catalogue, and issued them as being a fair 
statement of the ‘timbers of Assam.’ 
Nothing regarding the survey of Purnea in 1810, heyond what is included in 
the account of Nepal, was published prior to the posthumuus issue of his journal, 
Part of the archeological results of the surveys of Bhagalpur, Patna, Gaya and 
Shahabad is dealt with in a series of interesting and valuable papers extracted from the 
India Office copy of the reports and journals, and edited by Colebrooke between 
1826 und 18302 А paper dealing with the mineralogy of the Rajmahal hills was 
extracted by Captain Herbert from the Calcutta copy of the journal in 18315 The 
results of Hamilton’s enquiries into the indigenous drugs of South Behar generally, 
are incorporated in Ainslie’s Materia Medica. 
A paper describing a journey to the diamond field in the Panna State, made 
during the ізішу season of 1813 in connection with Hamilton’s survey work, wis 
published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal in 18192 In the same journal 
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bs ' Observations on the structure of the fruit in the natural order Cucurbitacem: Trans, Roy. Soc. Edinb. xi. 
: Catalogue of woods peculiar to Goalpara: M'Cosh: Topography of Assam. 1 vol, 8vo. Calcutta 1837. The 
list of timbers occurs at p. 36. » 
ae е Aikin : List of Indian woods collected бу N. Wallich, M.D., F R.S., Corresponding Msmber of the Royal 
itute of France and of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, фо. and of the Society of Arts of London; Superin- 
tendent of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. Trans. Soc. Arts Manuf. and Comm. xlvii. 439. The list, which 
perenne ia issued аз a separate pimohlet, is by some misipprehension ascribed by Pritzel to Wallich; no 
не uns portion, but as the text shows, by no mans all of the entries were made by Wallich. 
ҚЫ лада — T rocks in South Behar, described by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton and explained by H. T. 
usw pes 2 a байт pA сг of — of the Jains in South Behar and Bhagalpur : 
' » бос. і. { t . or datas: Trans. Roy. Аз. Soc. i. 1826: ipti 
се of Buddha Gaya by Dr. Francis Buchanan Hanilton, мв.а.3., эе ун {сощ ың Tyria е че 
th Behar: Trans. Roy. As. Soc. ii. 1830. dec л M 
*On the minerals of the Rajmshal cluster of hills: Glean. ia Sci. iii. 1831 
‘Ainslie: Materia Medica. 2 vo's, 8vo. Lonion: 1826. : 
7 Description of the Diamond mine at Panna: Edinb. Phil. Journ. i. 1819. 
