exxxvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVII. 
literature. After his retirement he first prepared and published 
work on Nepal and Assam and on the geneaiogies of Hindu 
Dynasties. His ‘‘ Account of the Fishes found in the River 
Ganges and its Branches”’ appeared in 1822 and included 
drawings made up to 1806. His careful observations on fish 
and fisheries made in connection with the statistical survey 
were very imperfectly quoted by Montgomery Martin in 1838 
in his ‘‘ Eastern India ’’ but were only published in full by Sir. 
William Hunter in 1877 in the twentieth volume of his 
‘* Statistical Account of Bengal’’; and the drawings prepared 
uring this period, of which one set are in the possession of the 
the Asiatic Society of Bengal,! are still unpublished. Hamilton- 
Buchanan died in 1829.? 
In 1800, soon after Hamilton-Buchanan’s arrival in India, 
E. Donovan began to publish the first ‘‘ Natural History of the 
Insects of India.’’ A revised edition of this work was sub- 
wood who, however. pointed out that many of the insects it con- 
tained belonged to the East Indies rather than to India proper, 
and that some even belonged to the West Indies. At about 
this time, also, Major General Thomas Hardwicke, himself the 
author of n r pers on various branches of Indian 
Zoology (published 1798-1834), was making an extensive collec- 
jon of natural history specimens with the aid of which John 
Edward Grey published his ‘‘ Illustrations of Indian Zoology ”’ 
between 1830 and 1832, including a large number of mammals, 
birds, reptiles and fish not only from India proper but also 
rom China and Malaysia. 
In 1829 Bryan Hodgson introduced Zoological studies into the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal, which up to that date had practically 
ignored them, partly perhaps because of the,views of its founder, 
Sir Wm. Jones : ‘Could the figure, instincts and qualities ’’ Jones 
said in an Anniversary Discourse, ‘‘ be ascertained either on the 
plan of Buffon, or on that of Linnaeus without giving pain to the 
object of our examination, few studies would afford us more 
or beautiful.” * Though our work can and should always be 
i t } swt . ‘ . = a 
mem Vv under] ying these sentiments, the views 
| His MS. is also with this society. 
* See Chaudhuri, Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal (N.S.) XIV, 
bring ay exliii-exlvi; also ‘‘ Memoir of Dr. Francis Buchanan” in Vol. 
T of 2nd edition ( 1870 ) of his « Journey from Madras....... ” 
* Tenth Anniversary Discourse, Asiatik Researches iv. 
