BUCHANAN

Fbakcis, M.D., bom in Stir lings hire, 15th Febnutfy, 1762; died, 1829. He velled extensively in the East Indies, making lections illustrative of the botany, zoology, £c., the countries which he visited, published in 1807 Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar, performed imder orders of the Marquis Wellesley for the purpose investigating the state of Agriculture, Arts, Commerce, ., History, Antiquities, ., in the minions of the Bajah of Mysore, (Lon. 1807). He contributed largely to the scientific journals the day, and in 1819 he published a History of Kingdom of Nepal, and in the same year a Genealogy of the Hindoo Grods, which he had drawn some years before with the a istance of an intelligent brahmin. In 1822 appeared his Account of Fishes of the Ganges, with plates.