STRACHEY. Several civil and military officers of this name have added to our knowledge of British India.
Edward Strachey, Bengal Civil Service, editor of the Bija Ganita.
Lt.-Col. /teary Strachey, author of Narrative of a Journey to the lakes Cho-lapin or Rakas and Cho-Mapan or Manasarowara, and the, Valley of Pruang in Tibet in 1846, 8vo, Calcutta 1848; on the Frontier of Katnaon and Garhwal. Ile men tions that Manasarowara discharges its waters through a gravel bank into Rakas Tal, which again sends off a. tributary to the Sutlej.
Sir John and General Richard Strachey wrote jointly on the Finances and Public Works of India for 1869 to 1881.
General Richard Strachey, an officer of the Ben gal Engineers, wrote on the Physical Geography of the Provinces of Garliwal and Karnaon, the Hitnalaya Mountains, in Lond. Geo. Trans., 1851, xxi. ; on the Glaciers of the Pindur and Kuphinee Rivers, in the Katnaon Himalayas, Edit'. New Phil. Jour., 1847-48, xliv. 108 ; A Trip to the Niti Pass, 1849, in Bl. As, Trans., 1850; ou the Snow Line of the Himalayas, ibid., 1849, xviii.
287 ; Notes on Investigations near Kamaon, ibid., 240 ; Geography of Kamaon, ibid., 1851 ; Horary Barometrical Observations at 11,01)0 feet above the level of the sea ; On the Tertiary Formations of the Hiinalayas, Rep. Brit. As., 1851. He was appointed by the Indian Government to make a scientific survey of the province of Kamaon, and WM occupied on the task about two years, during which time, in addition to the important investi gations in physical science which occupied his attention, he thoroughly explored the flora of the province, carefully noting the range of each species. He was joined by Mr. Winterbottom in 1848, and they travelled together in Tibet. Their joint collections, amounting to 2000 species, were distri buted in 1852-53 to the Hookerian flerbarittin, the British Museum, the Linnrean Society, and some foreign museurns.—B. As. Soc. J., 1848: Dr. Bui,t ; British lloseum.