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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
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and owned the Leny estate. Francis
Buchanan matriculated in 1774 and received an MA in 1779. As he had three older brothers, he had to earn a living from a profession, so Buchanan studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MD in 1783. His thesis was on
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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 were lent to his shipmate Alexander Boswell during a voyage in 1785. Boswell lost the notes in
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Buchanan's training was ideal as a surgeon naturalist for a political mission to the
Kingdom of Ava in Burma under Captain Symes (as replacement for the previously appointed surgeon Peter Cochrane). The Ava mission set sail on the
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Watson, Mark F.; Noltie, Henry J. (2016). "Career, collections, reports and publications of Dr
Francis Buchanan (later Hamilton), 1762–1829: Natural history studies in Nepal, Burma (Myanmar), Bangladesh and India. Part 1".
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He conducted two surveys, the first of Mysore in 1800 and the second of Bengal in 1807–14. From 1803 to 1804, he was surgeon to the governor general of India
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where Elizabeth, his mother, lived on the estate of Branziet; his father Thomas, a physician, came in
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plants and animals, probably painted by Indian artists, which are now in the library of the
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Rev. Claudius Buchanan was also frequently referred as Dr. Buchanan in missionary journals.
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along the Coromandel Coast again under Captain Gray. In 1794, he served on the
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in the region, and collected a series of watercolours of Indian and
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An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches
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An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches
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Noltie, H.J. (1999) Indian botanical drawings 1793–1868.
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from northeastern India (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae).
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Scottish geographer, zoologist, and botanist (1762–1829)
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Hamilton Buchanan", or "Francis Buchanan Hamilton".
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in Edinburgh. Hope was among the first to teach the
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596:Category:Taxa named by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
260:from 1794 to 1815. He also studied botany under
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1381:People educated at the High School of Glasgow
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1004:. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
998:"Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)"
645:. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
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330:An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal
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853:"Library and Archive Catalogue"
149:Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
874:Ehrlich, Joshua (3 May 2020).
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312:In 1799, after the defeat of
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156:Author abbrev. (botany)
1081:Zootaxa, 3686 (2): 201–243.
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443:Geoclemys hamiltonii
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821:"Buchanan Hamilton"
728:Hora, S.L. (1926).
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491:is named after him.
456:Geoclemys hamiltoni
441:An illustration of
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