122 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX. 
bar,’ ete., 3 vols, London, 1807, 4°. During 1802-03 he 
spent 14 months in Nepal and later two years on its frontier, 
in sections lying among the head waters of the northern 
tributaries of the Ganges. The results of this ea were 
published as nie ‘Account of the Kingdom of Nepal.” 
aia 1819, 4° 
1803 he was appointed surgeon to the Governor-Gene- 
ral, ee Wellesley, and during 1804 and 1805 had charge of 
the menagerie established by the latter at riety 3 15 miles 
north of Calcutta. Next Buchanan went to England with 
Wellesley late in 1805 but feared to India after a year’s 
furlough. 
So. aaa had been Buchanan’s work se making 
general surveys of the agriculture, arts, commerce, resources, 
religion, manners, aes. natural history and antiaudee of 
these countries, and so highly was his work approved by the 
pak ae of the East India Company, that its Court of 
irectors, in 1806, authorized a statistical survey of Bengal 
by him. Specific orders were given him by Governor General 
~ Lord Minto in September 1807, and he at once began his 
and the years up to and including 1814. He made minute 
surveys of Dinajpur, Rangpur, Puraniya, Bhagalpur, Behar 
and the city of Patna, Shahabad, and Gorakhpur , and even 
then covered only part of the Bengal Presidency. The total 
cost of this survey was £30,000 
On each district noted above, Buchanan submitted lenutny 
reports accompanied by statistical tables, maps, an 
ings. Included in these (as will be seen later) were eet et 
notes and drawings on the fishes and fisheries of Bengal. His 
notes filled 21 manuscript volumes of large size and in addi- 
tion there v were 7 of statistical tables. 
reason of family affairs which took him to England in 1815. 
He was succeeded at the garden by Dr. Nathaniel Wallich. 



' A few lines may be in order concerning Buchanan’s change of 
name. In 1816 he returned to England for the last time, and, both his 
parents having died, he fell heir to the extensive property se his mother 
(a Miss Hamilton), and in recognition of this assumed her name. For a 
i 
literature he is ecmmonly referred to as Hecstivon Buchanan, It ts un- 
fortunate that Pm “scientific literature he should be designated in these 
two different w 
