1923. ] Material for Hamilion-Buchanan’s Fishes. 123 
THe Fare or BucuaNan’s CoLLeEctTions, Nores 
AND DRAWINGs. 
Buchanan took to England with him and presented to 
the Court of Directors of the East India Company collections 
of plants and minerals, Indian drugs, various geographical 
notes and genealogical tables, notes on natural History sub 
In 1826, Buchanan published in the Transactions of the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh a paper giving with special refer- 
*nce to his botanical collections a resumé of his journeyings 
in India. Of the transfer of his collections and drawings he 
Says that :— 
* While preparing for the journey [to England], I was de- 
prived by the Marquis of Hastings of all the botanical draw- 
ings which had been made under my inspection during my 
ast stay in India [since 1805], otherwise they would have 
been deposited, with my other collections, in the Library of 
the India House. By this ill-judged act of authority, un- 
worthy of this: Nobleman’s character, the drawings will 
probably be totally lost to the public. To me, as an indivi- 
dual, they were of no value, as I preserve no collection, and 
as I have no occasion to convert them into money, In 
February, 1815, I embarked for Europe, and in September 
presented my whole [personal ?] collections to the Court of 
Directors.”’ 
Secretary of the Indian Government, we rea 
‘In a letter from. .the Governor General {Lord Hastings | 
of the 5th January, 1815, His Excellency says : ‘by a letter 
from Dr. Buchanan received here, it appears that he oh 
poses to carry to Europe all the drawings of animals an 
plants collected by him during the tour which he was em- 
ployed to make in this country. Dr. Buchanan states that 
it is his object to request the Court of Directors to accept 
this collection as a present from him, Now, I a a 
that these drawings are already the property of the Hon’ble 
