Francis Buchanan-Hamilton

Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (Callander, Perthshire Scotland, February 15, 1762 - Great Britain June 15, 1829) was a Scottish doctor, zoologist and botanist who lived in India.< br/>

Biography

Francis Buchanan was born in Scotland. He added "Hamilton" to his surname upon receiving his maternal inheritance. He 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. During this time he was sent on several research expeditions in India and Nepal.

From 1803 to 1804 he was the official surgeon to the Governor General of India Lord Wellesley in Calcutta, where he even organized a zoo that was the nucleus of the current 'Calcutta Alipore Zoo'. He succeeded William Roxburgh as Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden in 1814, but had to return to Britain in 1815 due to his poor health.

In 1822 he published An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. In 1807 he wrote A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar and in 1819 An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal . He also collected and described numerous new plants in the region.

Honors

Eponymy

Animals

• Emberiza buchanani
• Prinia buchanani

Vegetables

• (Annonaceae) Monanthotaxis buchananii (Engl.) Verdc.

• (Asclepiadaceae) Cryptolepis buchananii Roem.

Works

• Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar: for the express purpose of investigating the state of agriculture, arts and commerce, the religion, manners, and customs, the history natural and civil, and antiquities. 3 Volumes. London. 1807
• An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal. 1819
• An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Edinburgh & London 1822

Literature

• D. Prain. A sketch of the life of Francis Hamilton (once Buchanan) sometime Superintendent of the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden, Calcutta. In: Ann. of the Royal Botanic Garden 10 (2): I-LXXV, Calcutta 1905

• Leslie Stephen (ed.) Dictionary of national Biography. Vol. VII, pp. 186, Smith, Elder & Co., London 1886

Abbreviation (zoology)

The abbreviation Buchanan-Hamilton is used to indicate Francis Buchanan-Hamilton as an authority on description and taxonomy in zoology.

• The abbreviation "Buch.-Ham." is used to indicate Francis Buchanan-Hamilton as an authority in the description and scientific classification of vegetables. Also appear your abbreviation in equipment, such as:

• Buchanan-Hamilton " D. Don
• Buchanan-Hamilton & de Candolle