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1918.] The Fifth Indian Science Congress. exlv 
under the title Hastern India, with Martin’s name on the 
title page, a work popularly known as Martin’s India. 
busied himself in preparing and publishing his accounts of 
Nepal and of Assam and tables of the genealogies of Hindu 
dynasties. As soon as these works were finished he arranged 
for publication the most sustained and notable of his zoological 
works, An Account of the Fishes found in the River Ganges and 
ts Branches, with a volume of plates in royal quarto. In 
ose ma 
the Statistical Account of the Presidency of Bengal and he was 
deprived of their use. It is not necessary here to enter into the 
eireumstances which brought this about, but the incident was 
unfortunate as the published volume of plates is less complete 
than it would otherwise have been. It has been already stat 
that Dr. Francis Buchanan subsequently assumed, for family 
reasons, the surname Hamilton, and this name appears on the 
title page of his Account. Cuvier, however, suggested that 
although he signed himself by his new name in his Account of 
. Fishes of the Ganges he should be recognized amongst 
“clentific writers as Dr. Hamilton Buchanan, as under the latter 
me he was best known amongst naturalists. The impor- 
tance of his excellent work on the Indian fishes cannot be 
‘vations and nothing more or less.” _Giinther has rem 
elsewhere, « Hamilton Buchanan’s works were distinguished by 
