lxii A SKETCH OF THE LIFE ОР 
The corresponding commentary on Rumphius was published by the Wernerian 
Society of Edinburgh. The first part appeared in 1824: the second, which we 
know was completed before February 1826, was published sometime between 1826 and 
1831. There is nothing to show that more of the work was ever written ; probably 
it was not. 'The original rough comments, as Hamilton explains in one of his letters, 
are written on the backs of the platas of the copy of Rumphius which belongs to 
the Caleut:a Garden Library; on the Calcutta copy of Rheede he has written no 
notes. , 
Hamilton’s claim to represent the house of Buchanan of Buchanan was publicly 
presented and tried in 1826-28 and may therefore be included among his publications.” 
The only other paper for which he is believed to have been. responsible during bis 
lifetime, is one that was actually published after his death іп the Edinburgh New 
Philosophical Journal? | | ' 
In 1831 an attempt was made in Calcutta to ріМізһ in their entirety Hamilton's 
reports regarding the Bengal Survey. Captain Herbert, elitor of Gleanings $a Science, 
beng anxious to increase the local as opposed to the general interest of his excellent 
journal, asked for permission to publish Hamilton's manuscript. Тһе plan suggested 
was to print a certain number of pages, not fewer than eight at one time, with a 
separate pagination, along with each number of the Gleanings. Government readily 
granted the request and the manuscript of the 1807 or Dinajpur report was made 
cver to Herbert by Mr. Swinton, then Chief Secretary, for the purpose. When the 
publication of Gleanings in Scienze ceased and the newly founded Journal of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal, under the editorship of James Prinsep, took its place, Prinsep 
continued Herbert’s idea and completed the issue of the Dinajpur journal. The sepa- 
rate portions were proviled with a title page, etc, and became available as a 
complete work іп 1833.‘ 
In this edition of the Hamilton manuseript nothing was omitted, even the refer- 
ences to drawings were left as they stood, although the drawings themselves һай 
been sent home to the Court of Directors without copies having been kept. Тһе hope 
of the editors, Herbert and Prinsep, was that even if the Court were unable to publish 
the original manuscript, they might publish the drawings. 
The determination how far it was advisable to continue the publication of the 
accounts of the other districts surveyed, was made dependent on the amount of 
immediate interest which the Dinajpur one might command. The Anglo-Indian com- 
munity in 1833 was much like the same community in 1904; no more of the work 
appeared. 
In 1838 the records left by Hamilton were at last made available in а connect- 
ed form. Permission was given by the Honourable C.u:t of Directors to a Mr, Robert 
' Commentary on the Herbarium Amboinense: Mem. Wern. Soc. Ebinb. v. (part 2) and vi (part 2). From 
the manner in which the reference to part 1 is given (read 14th June 1823, еле) it appears аз if the paper may 
have been read by instalments. 
* Claim of Dr. Francis Hamilion Buchanan of Spittal фо be considered the chief of the name as mule representative 
€f the family of Buchanan of Buchanan. 1 vol. Edinburgh: 18:8. 
P pu Uniformity of Climate prevailed over the earth prior to the time of the Deluge Р: Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 
тш. 30. 
* A Geographical, Statistical and Historical Description of the District, or Zila, 
of Dinajpur in the Provi 6 
Sowbah, of Bengal. 1 vol. Svo. Calcutta : 1833 ғ rovince, or 
