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fullest credit, his name appearing on every plate which 
includes one of his figures. 
Not only had Buchanan been unable to make use of these 
figures in his ‘Gangetic Fishes,’ but for 22 years they had lain 
hidden, and McClelland had gone to the time, trouble and 
expense of identifying Buchanan’s unfigured Cyprinidae (which 
would have been made easy by the use of the figures) and had 
also had these refigured. One hardly knows how to charac- 
terize so culpable a situation. 
Just here is the place chronologically to clear up a long 
obscure point, namely when were these drawings and notes 
transferred from the Library of the Botanic Garden to that of 
the Asiatic Society. For a long time I thought that this had 
been done when the manuscripts were put into the hands of 
Herbert and of Prinsep for publication, but this was negatived 
by McClelland’s statement that in 1838 he saw the drawings at 
the Botanic Garden. However, the matter is cleared up on the 
authority of Cantor who says that “ Mr. [Wm.j Griffith while 
Superintending the Botanic Gardens transferred these drawings 
to the Library of the Asiatic Society, Bengal,” in 1842 or 1843. 
Day has done more than any one man to make use of 
Buchanan’s literary remains. }871 he examined the draw- 
In 
ings in the Library of the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, with the 
lt 
_ There are 146 (not 144 or 149 or 150) figures in his list, of 
which Nos. 70 and 71 are duplicates of No. 64, Mugil bogon, an 
undescribed form. In passing it may be remarked that No.128 
is Cyprinus titius, to which Buchanan refers on page 317 of the 
Ganges Fishes as being in possession of the Bengal Govern- 
ment. 
in Hardwicke’s “ Illustrations,” and 2 others were deposited 
with the Hardwicke collection in the British Museum but never 
reproduced; McClelland utilized in his work 39 figures of 
