الإنجليزية 1423

THE world of Western Culture is generally acquainted with the Schools of Archæology in the Near and Middle East; in Rome, in Athens, in Egypt, Palestine and Iraq; but the work of the Archæological Survey Department in India, though it covers a wide extent of time and area, is perhaps not so well known. The Council of the India Society of London has felt for some time that sufficient attention has not been accorded in this country to archeological achievement in India, and so requested the present Editor, a member of the Society, to place this achievement on record amongst the Society's publications, by enlisting the services of several past and present officers of the Department. The names and credentials of all the contributors are given in the Table of Contents. It is only by a division of labour amongst scholars that a subject with so wide a range can be explored. Although Ceylon is geographically adjacent to India and has its own monuments and relics of Buddhism, and although Afghanistan is likewise adjacent with its evidence of Hellenic civilization similar to that found in the Frontier Province of India, yet, as the work in these two places has never fallen within the sphere of the Indian Archæological Survey, these areas have been omitted from the purview of the present work. In Ceylon the Government has under its own Department executed excellent conservation work, and in Afghanistan valuable exploration has been effected by eminent French archæologists. Descriptions of recent archæological work in Ceylon by A. H. Longhurst and of the French Mission in Afghanistan by Joseph Hackin will be found in the India Society's Indian Art and Letters, Vol. XII,.....