The Buchanan-Hamilton manuscripts
Contributors: India Office Library and Records
Publisher: India Office Records
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London, England]
Language: eng
Subjects: Manuscripts; Sources; History; Natural history
Other titles: Buchanan-Hamilton collection.
Notes: Title from: A guide to the India Office Library.

"The Buchanan-Hamilton Manuscripts (presented c. 1820): twenty volumes of survey accounts, natural history drawings, and other material of Francis Buchanan (1762-1829), afterwards known as Hamilton or Buchanan-Hamilton, surgeon in the Bengal Service from 1794 to 1816, botanist and ichthyologist, who was employed by the Company on many special missions and on general survey work"--A guide to the India Office Library, 1967, p. 24.

Reel guide available on the World Wide Web in PDF form.

The following items of the collection were unavailable for filming: IOR MSS Eur D86, IOR MSS Eur G10, IOR MSS Eur G17-IOR MSS Eur G25.

Master and use digital copies. Technical details on the digital scanning are available at http://dds.crl.edu/technical_information.asp?tid=1349.