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1923. | Material for Hamilton-Buchanan’s Fishes. 133 
Cyprinidae out of 52 found ; this leaves 53 figures as yet remain- 
ing unpublished anywhere. 
In another volume Day found 48 drawings of fishes, all of 
which are duplicates of the preceding except 4 One of these 
has been reproduced in the Hardwicke volume, one is a dupli- 
cate of which the original has been lost, and only one of the 
four has had the fish described in the -Ganges Fishes.? The 
duplicate, of which the original is lost, was reproduced as to 
its head and dorsal fin by Giinther in 1872, and the same 
ichthyologist in 1871 had reproduced the figure of Cyprinus 
batu, No. 114 of Day’s list above. 
As has probably been noted, there are some discrepancies 
in the counts of these drawings. McClelland says that there 
were 150 sent him by Dr. Wallich. Day (1871) reports first of 
149 drawings and 45 copies in 2 manuscript volumes, but he 
lists 146 in vol. IV and 48 in vol. I, and later says: “‘T 1s 
volume IV contains 50 coloured illustrations of fish.” Again 
(1877) Day speaks of four volumes of drawings which were 
contained 149 drawings and 45 copies. Day’s 149 drawings 
volumes taken to England in 1816 and brought back to India in 
1873, as we shall see later. He then published (1873) a note 
based on these manuscripts, correcting a number of errors in 
the “Fishes of the Ganges.’”’ The great pity is that for nearly 
60 years these notes and drawings had been hidden in peter 
ment archives to the great loss of credit for Buchanan and o 
valuable data for ichthyology. f 
For the final knowledge and use of the large amount 0 
data collected by Buchanan in his Bengal survey we are indebt- 
to Hunter and through him Day. In 1869, Dr. William 
Wilson Hunter, having been made Director-General of Statis- 
In preparation for this work he carried back to India with him 
the manuscript volumes of Buchanan’s notes elsewhere re- 
ferred to. The magnificent outcome of Hunter’s work was the 
20-volume “ Statistical Account of Bengal,”’ London, orphan 
In preparing this, Buchanan’s work was constantly used EH 
which to check the progress of 60 years in those parts of In = 
which he surveyed in 1807-1814. These manuscripts brought 
from London were submitted to Day in 1873 with the request 
that he look into them to ascertain how the fresh-water fisher- 
