Description of Birds and Animals in the Barrackpore Menagerie, Volume II
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Descriptions of 59 animals and birds in the Barrackpore [Bārākpur] Menagerie. Of the 31 birds, 24 mammals and 4 reptiles described, all but three of the birds are illustrated in NHD3/311-536.
Journal of progress and observations during the continuance of the Deputation from Bengal to Ava in 1795 in the Dominions of the Barma Monarch
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Noted in Kay and Jonston as being exactly alike the second copy, Mss Eur C13, except for the title page (missing form the first copy), and written in a different hand.
'Journal of progress and observations during the continuance of the Deputation from Bengal to Ava in 1795 in the Dominions of the Barma Monarch' [2nd copy]
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Noted in Kay and Jonston as being exactly alike the first copy, Mss Eur C12, except for the title page (missing form the first copy), and written in a different hand.
66 sheets of drawings (includings some duplicates) collected during the Statistical Survey of Bengal. Folios 1-39 relate to the Dinajpur Survey (1807-1808). Folios 40-64 are from the Bhagalpur Survey (1810-1811). Folios 67 and 68 are from the Purnea Survey (1809-1810). 1. Sculpture of Ganesh a...
Buchanan-Hamilton Drawings Volume III: Maps and Plans
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Album of 26 maps and plans: 9 relating to Assam (1793-1794), 10 to Nepal (1802-1803), 7 to teh Bengal Presidency surveys (1807-1814). The Assam maps are by Ensign Thomas Wood, Surveor with Captain Walsh's Detachment in 1793-1794, and include maps of the Brahmputra valley and Gauhati. The Nepal...