Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer zoologist and botanist while living in India. He was born Francis Buchanan at Bardowie, Callander, Perthshire; his family originated in Spittal and claimed the chiefdom of the name of Buchanan. Francis studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

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  • Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer zoologist and botanist while living in India. He was born Francis Buchanan at Bardowie, Callander, Perthshire; his family originated in Spittal and claimed the chiefdom of the name of Buchanan. Francis studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After several voyages on Merchant Navy ships to Asia, he served in the Bengal Medical Service from 1794 to 1815. He also studied botany under John Hope in Edinburgh. From 1803 to 1804 he was surgeon to the Governor General of India Lord Wellesley in Calcutta, where he also organized a zoo that was to become the Calcutta Alipore Zoo. From 1807 to 1814, under the instructions of the government of Bengal, he made a comprehensive survey of the areas within the jurisdiction of the British East India Company. He was asked to report on topography, history, antiquities, the condition of the inhabitants, religion, natural productions (particularly fisheries, forests, mines, and quarries), agriculture (covering vegetables, implements, manure, floods, domestic animals, fences, farms, and landed property, fine and common arts, and commerce . His conclusions are reported in a series of treatises that are retained in major United Kingdom libraries; many have been re-issued in modern editions. They include an important work on Indian fish species, entitled An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches, which describes over 100 species not formerly recognised scientifically. He also collected and described many new plants in the region, and collected a series of watercolours of Indian and Nepalese plants and animals, probably painted by Indian artists, which are now in the library of the Linnean Society of London. After Tippu's defeat in 1799, he was asked to survey southern India resulting in A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar . He also wrote An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal . He succeeded William Roxburgh to become the Superintendent of the Calcutta botanical garden in 1814, but had to return to Britain in 1815 due to his ill health. In an interesting incident the notes that he took of Hope's botany lectures in 1780 was lent to his shipmate Alexander Boswell during a voyage in 1785. Boswell, lost the notes in Satyamangalam in Mysore and the notes went into the hands of Tippu Sultan who had them rebound. In 1800 they were found in Tippu's library by a major Ogg who returned it to Buchanan. The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch. -Ham. is applied to plants and animals he described, though the form "Buchanan, 1822" is more often seen in ichthyology and is preferred by Fishbase. Buchanan left India in 1815, and in the same year inherited his mother's estate and in consequence took her surname of Hamilton, referring to himself as "Francis Hamilton, formerly Buchanan" or simply "Francis Hamilton". However he is variously referred to by others as "Buchanan-Hamilton", "Francis Hamilton Buchanan" or "Francis Buchanan Hamilton".
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, auch als Francis Hamilton-Buchanan und Francis Hamilton bekannt, war ein bedeutender Erforscher und Entdecker südasiatischer Fischarten. Sein zoologisches Hauptwerk hat unter der Kurzbezeichnung "Hamilton's Fishes" bis heute große Bedeutung für die Taxonomie und systematische Ichthyologie.
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton fue médico, zoólogo y botánico escocés, viviendo en la India.
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton est un botaniste et un zoologiste écossais né le 15 février 1762 à Callander dans le Perthshire et mort le 15 juin 1829 dans cette même ville. Il fait ses études de médecine à l’université d’Édimbourg. Après avoir servi comme médecin de bord dans la marine marchande et avoir fait de nombreux voyages en Asie, il entre dans le Service médical du Bengale en 1794, fonction qu’il conserve jusqu’en 1815. Pendant cette période, il fait de nombreuses recherches en Inde et au Népal. De 1803 à 1804, il est le chirurgien du gouverneur général de l’Inde, Lord Wellesley (1760-1842) à Calcutta, où il organise également un zoo connu aujourd’hui sous le nom du zoo Alipore de Calcutta. En 1814, il succède à William Roxburgh (1759-1815) au poste de directeur du jardin botanique de Calcutta, mais il doit retourner en Grande-Bretagne en 1815 à cause de sa santé défaillante. Né Francis Buchanan, il ajoute le nom Hamilton après son patronyme lorsqu’il reçoit la succession de sa mère. Il fait paraître en 1822, An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches, en 1807 A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar et en 1819 An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal. Il a aussi récolté et décrit de nombreuses plantes de ces régions. Edward Blyth (1810-1873) a dédié deux espèces à Buchanan : le bruant à cou gris (Emberiza buchanani Blyth, 1844) et la fauvette-roitelet à front roux (Prinia buchanani Blyth, 1845).
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton foi médico, zoólogo e botânico escocês vivendo na Índia.
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  • Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer zoologist and botanist while living in India. He was born Francis Buchanan at Bardowie, Callander, Perthshire; his family originated in Spittal and claimed the chiefdom of the name of Buchanan. Francis studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, auch als Francis Hamilton-Buchanan und Francis Hamilton bekannt, war ein bedeutender Erforscher und Entdecker südasiatischer Fischarten. Sein zoologisches Hauptwerk hat unter der Kurzbezeichnung "Hamilton's Fishes" bis heute große Bedeutung für die Taxonomie und systematische Ichthyologie.
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton fue médico, zoólogo y botánico escocés, viviendo en la India.
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton est un botaniste et un zoologiste écossais né le 15 février 1762 à Callander dans le Perthshire et mort le 15 juin 1829 dans cette même ville. Il fait ses études de médecine à l’université d’Édimbourg. Après avoir servi comme médecin de bord dans la marine marchande et avoir fait de nombreux voyages en Asie, il entre dans le Service médical du Bengale en 1794, fonction qu’il conserve jusqu’en 1815.
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton foi médico, zoólogo e botânico escocês vivendo na Índia.
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