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BUCHANAN HAMILTON'S ICHTHYOLOGICAL 

 DRAWINGS. 



They consist of 144 coloured figures of fishes executed by native 

 painters, and they form a portion of the series of Zoological Drawings* 

 which on Buchanan Hamilton's departure from India were deposited 

 in the Library of the Honorable Company's Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 

 In the valuable Report on the Calcutta Botanic Garden Mr. Griffith has 

 given the following account of these Drawings : " Coloured Drawings 

 of Dr. Buchanan, (afterwards Hamilton,) stated to have been deposited 

 in the Library in 1815. 



Fishes, 144 



Reptiles, 19 



Birds, 349 



Quadrupeds, 36 



For many of the originals copies appear to have been substituted. 

 There are in addition 18 folio sheets containing copies of some of the 

 drawings of Fish, executed apparently in Dr. Wallicb's time. Of Birds, 

 &c. there are also similar duplicate copies 22 ; and of unfinished and 

 un-named 14." (William Griffith : Report on the Horfble Company's 

 Botanic Gardens. Printed by Authority. Calcutta, 1843. Part V. 

 Library Department, page 96.) 



* In the preface to the fourth volume of Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, 

 (Paris, 1829,) the authors acknowledge their having, through Dr. Horsfield, had 

 access to a series of Buchanan Hamilton's Ichthyological Drawings in the Library 

 of the East India House, London. 



