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required constant medical attention. In India ‘‘ he resided 
principally at Vizagapatam, his brother having been appointed 
the highest office in that settlement. His time and 
plored.” In 1785 he became Naturalist to the East India 
Company in Madras on the death of the Botanist, J. G. Koenig, 
for whom the post had been crea in 1778. But he left 
collected on the Coast of Coromandel” appeared in 1796, 
and was followed by the first fasciculus of a “ Continuation ” 
in 1801. In 1802 he published “ Descriptiorls and Figures of Two 
Hundred Fishes collected at Vizagapatam on the Coast of 
su 
quick succession by William Carey and Francis Buchanan before 
a permanent Superintendent was found in Nathanial Wallich. 
Francis Buchanan , to whom we must next turn our 
attention. was a native of Edinburgh and entered the East 
India Company’s Bengal service as an Assistant Surgeon in 
1794 at the age of 32. Soon after his arrival in Calcutta he 
accompanied Captain Symes 0 ission to Ava and visited 
the Andaman Islands, devoting himself to the collection of 
natural history specimens. On his return he was. stationed in 
various parts of the Sunderbans, where he studied the local 
fish and had some of them drawn with great accuracy. In 1800 
he was sent to report upon Mysore and Malabar, then lately 
acquired from Tippu Sultan. His results, under the title 
‘<A jo 
Buchanan by which he is commonly known in Zoological 
i Concerning Russell see «Memoir of the Life and Writings of 
Patrick Russell, M.D.” on pp. ix-xv of his “‘ Indian Serpents.” Concern- 
ing Koenig see Russell’s preface to Roxburgh’s ‘ Coromandel Plants. 
