1923 ] Material for Hamilton-Buchanan’s Fishes. 135. 
With regard to the grievous w mee done to both Buchanan 
and Ichthyology by the long withholding of the scientific results 
of his exploration of the Bengal presidency, 1 cannot do better 
than quote McClelland (1839) who with a ver v exact knowledge 
of the situation wrote as follows :— 
‘* Had such an be ury to the advancement of information resulted: 
from an oversight i an ordinar ublic office, the circumstance would 
excite less surprise ; on that the works of a naturalist should be so treated 
in a public Institution expressly intended for the promotion ier i 
830 unaccountable to me, that I cannot hema to express an opinion on 
the subject. But as the case swhiade, perhaps the best remedy that can 
f i chanan, as aca s to others who are still 
now be applied in catia 
engaged in scientific pursuits, would be to give a 1 complete edition of his 
labours, botanical and zoological, to the rene: e he same t i 
right to say that no atonemen w make amends for ake ee pre = 
a 
has been inflicted on Buchanan as a nat saiaihiats or for the 
been lost in allowing others to go over unneceszarily the eee which a 
investigated, instead of paar ans he left off.’ 
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