cxliv _- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV,” 
in 1794. He was a keen student of nature before his arrivalin — 
India, and his enthusiasm continued throughout his official life 
in this country. With Captain Symes he was sent ona 
mission to Ava, and there he employed his leisure in collecting — 
natural history specimens in Burma and subsequently in the 
daman Islands. He forwarded his collections and drawings — 
to the Honourable Court of Directors who presented them to Sit 
Joseph Banks. Returning to India he was stationed for two — 
that he began to take notes on fish. In a letter to Roxburgh 
dated 30th November, 1797, he says, ‘“‘ I have given my old 
Twenty-four Pergana District. While here he had oceasiel 
make several voyages in the Western Sunderbans and ; 
utilized these opportunities to become acquanted with Grangeti¢ 
estuarine fishes. In 1800 he was commissioned to report up™ 
the state of Mysore and Malabar, lately acquired from Tipt 
Sultan. In the course of these travels he discovered three 0 — 
first published contribution by Buchanan to Ichthyology: 
copious notes on fishes collected while be was stato 
Puttahaut and at -Bauripur, were incorporated in his 
of the Gangetic Fishes to be referred tolater on. In 1802 he oi 
sent with Captain Knox to Nepal where he collected eg 
He continued his study of Gangetic fishes when he h 
ing 1804—05 
covered the districts of Rungpur, Dinajpur, Goalpara, rakpt 
Bhagalpur, Monghyr, Dae, Pata: Shahabad and Gore®r” 
making journeys also to Allahabad and Agra. 
Buchanan took extensive notes on fish and 
