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given his collections for arrangement and publieation, there was no suggestion that th 
Court should assist in publishing Hamilton’s results; these were to appear i th 4 
papers “іп such journals as might accept them û cironuislanda ыл. er = form of 
the suggestion made regarding the manuscripts, eeping with 
It has also been suggested that it is singular that Hamilton did not make more per- 
sistent efforts {о have his reports made use of! Before, however, forming an. opinion 
E e of the eec it 18 necessary to recall what Hamilton actually did. We 
y seen what his publications were; 1{ may throw light on this suggestion 
E the fault was Hamilton's own, if we examine the principle that underlay his 
action. 
Considering the extent and the methodical nature of his observations Hamilton had 
published remarkably little before he retired.’ When he reached England he therefore had 
much material that called for publication. Some of this material, for example his Hindu 
genealogies, we know was prepared for issue while he was in India, and practically all 
that had to be done was to find a publisher and send the manuscript to the press. Other 
portions, such as the accounts of Nepal and Assam, must also have been nearly ready for 
publication before he left India, for they were issued soon after Hamilton's return to 
England. Still other parts appear to have only existed in the form of notes or journals 
which required to be revised, collated with subsequent notes, and edited, 
The publication of his Account of Nepal in 1819 exhausted the general informa- 
tion he could give with reference to his fourth survey, just as tho appearance of tho 
Mysore journal in 1807 exhausted the general information he could give regarding his 
third survey. But when in 1819 he had completed the issue of the works mostly 
written and arranged in India, and could turn his attention to his other notes and 
journals, there still remained to be dealt with not only the results of the final or Bengal 
survey but those of the Chittagong survey and much of those of the Ava survey. 
It was only natural that he should attempt to clear off the Ava and Chittagong 
materials before he dealt with the Bengal ones; and as regards the Bengal results, 
which, in accordance with the instructions under which he had acted, included information 
obtained regarding countries beyond the Company’s frontiers, it was not only natural 
but proper that he should try to clear off the outlying transfrontier notes before 
attempting to edit the Bengal results. Accordingly we find that he dealt with 
the transfrontier results of the Rangpur survey in a separate work on Assam; 
incorporated the transfrontier results of the Purnea and Gorakhpur surveys in his work 
on Nepal; made his observations in, or information obtained from the Panna State 
and from Singraula the subject of separate papers; dealt exhaustively with the geographi- 
cal results of his Ava journey and codified the results of his Chittagong deputation ; 
finally, cleared off such notes as he deemed worthy of publication from the journals 
kept or observations recorded during his voyages of 1785-91, of 1805-6, and of сады 
Ав regards the whole of the surveys and travels | prior to the € TL 
he was greatly handieapped by the absence of his botanical аг А Ж | 
found their way into the herbaria either of Banks or of Smith, and had thus VEEP 
practically inaccessible to him. Не had ss a matter of fact prepared P | a. 
account of the vegetation of Burma which he gave to Banks, but whic | 
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1 Beveridge: Calcutta Review for July 1894. 
