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Lukhipur and Baruipur in 1796-1800, he had drawings made 
of the fishes. Chaudhuri (1918) quotes a letter from Bucha- 
nan to Roxburgh dated Nov. 30, 1797 :—‘‘ I have given my 
old painter a gold mohar a month and have him employed on 
shes ’’ Later, while in charge of the menagerie at Barrackpur 
in 1804-05, he continued his researches and had drawings 
made—presumably at his own expense (Chaudhuri). 
Whether Buchanan had had drawings made for every 
species of fish studied in Bengal is a matter of conjecture. But 
he certainly had great numbers made and it is equally certain 
that, while he made use of some, he did not have access to all. 
Of this we have his own testimony. On pages 315-316 of his 
“ Fishes of the Ganges” in speaking of Cyprinus titius, he 
says:—‘‘in the north-east parts of Bengal, I saw another fish 
called by the same [native] names, and procured a drawing, 
now in the possession of the Bengal Government . . . therefore 
until I recover the drawings I cannot give the fish a specific 
character.’’ As further evidence of the fact that he was 
not permitted to use all his drawings, it may be stated that 
while he described 80 species of the family Cyprinidae, he only 
figured 2). 
was reposing in the India House, London, where it had been 
brought in 1816. 
ow as to the further use of the data so laboriously col- 
lected by Buchanan and entirely withheld from complete 
publication, certain interesting facts may be given. First of 
all I have found that some use was made of various mis- 
cellaneous data in 3s by C. Mackenzie and Henry T. Cole- 
brooke in the Asiatic Transactions between 1807 (vol 9) and 
