1923.] Material jor Hamilton-Buchanan’s Fishes. 129 
1816 (vol. 12). Also there is a short paper by Buchanan him- 
self in ‘ Gleanings in Science,” 1832, vol. iii, pp. 1-8. The 
first extensive use, however, was by Hamilton, as noted next. 
In 1820. Walter Hamilton published at London his “ Geo- 
graphical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hin- 
dostan and the Adjacent Countries” in 2 vols. 4°. In this 
work of solid worth, Hamilton says that his purpose was to re- 
duce the geography, etc. of Hindostan to a more definite and 
systematic form than had been done before. On page x of 
his preface in his vol. I he says that he has drawn almost 
P 
nan’s figures on deposit there—all of which 1 have verified by 
0 be seen. Mrs Gray engraved a large number of the pore 
unfigured species from that series but they have not been - . 
lished ’ I may add that I obtained a set of these figures along 
With some of the late Dr. Jerdon’s MSS. ; these are six 4to. 
plates containing 46 figures.’ A large number of the 
wicke’s figures it should be noted are, however, reproductions 0 
