124 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
Court, the services for which Dr. Buchanan was employed 
and paid having specifically been the furnishing of Govern- 
ment with a knowledge of the animal and vegetable produc- 
tions of this country, delineations are essentially included in 
this service.’ ”’ 
Dr. Buchanan’s answer shows that permission to take the 
drawings to Europe had been asked for by him and granted 
by the Honourable Vice-President in Council, and now having 
been withdrawn by Lord Hastings. the President of the Court, 
he returned the drawings with the following statement :— 
..my object in requesting that 1 might be permitted to 
present the drawings to the Court of Directors, did not ori- 
ginate in a view of claiming the merit of making a present 
to the Company of its own property, but arose from a con- 
viction that their being deposited in the collection at India 
House was the most probable means of rendering them use- 
ful to science. ”’ 
sé 
et us now go into as careful and detailed a consideration 
- as the data at hand will allow of the fate of Buchanan’s other 
collections. (i.e., those which were the property of the East 
India Company). First he states (1826) that his earlier botan- 
ical collections were from time to time sent to Sir Joseph 
Banks, to Dr. Roxburgh, to Sir J. E. Smith, and to Mr. A. B. 
Lambert. Notes of course went with them, while either the 
original notes or duplicates were generally if not always depos- 
ited with the East India Company, either in Bengal or in 
London. Asto the fate of Buchanan’s zoological collections, 
practically nothing is known. It will be remembered that he 
states that he kept no collections whatever. The interest of 
this article, of course, centres most in his fishes. These, in 
tions says: ‘ ction of Fishes from Bengal, believed to 
contain many typical specimens of Buchanan-Hamilton’s work, 
presented b aterhouse, Esq.’ As to how these col- 
were in a handwriting very similar to that of the transcriber 
of Buchanan’s manuscript and “identical with that on original 
drawings, which differs widely from that of Dr. Buchanan 
himself, as shown in his personally kept Journal.” 
The ultimate fate of Buchanan’s manuscript notes ‘and 
drawings is a matter the history of which is also of much in- 
terest. His earlier botanical notes and drawings had gone to 
