154 Photographs of Hindu Antiquities in Java. [August,, 



our Society, was entrusted by the Government of Netherlandish India with 

 the task of visiting and describing the remains of the Hindu period, but who 

 unfortunately was prevented by his untimely decease from accomplishing 

 his studies, leaving unfinished a work which, when completed, would unques- 

 tionably have become one of the most interesting sources of our knowledge 

 of the pre-Mahomedan period of Java. 



' Together with the proposal of our Direction to entrust to the Rev. 

 J. F. G. Brumund the description of the various monuments, we called the 

 attention of the India Government to the necessity of having the monuments, 

 at least the most interesting of them, reproduced by an able photographer, 

 and according to our advice, Government made choice of Mr. v. Kinsbergen,. 

 who under our control and according to our instructions has been occupied 

 for some years in forming the collection of which a copy is now presented to 

 your learned Society through our instructions, but in the name of the Govern- 

 ment of Netherlandish India. 



' The photographs are accompanied by a catalogue from which you will 

 please to observe that only the smaller part of them has been described in 

 the above quoted work of Mr. Brumund, a new copy of which will be found 

 in the parcel, containing the latest publications of our Society, which we 

 have at the same time forwarded to your address. 



' Nearly all the antiquities that have been found in the Residencies of 

 Bagelen, Gidiri, &c, were photographed after the death of Mr. Brumund, 

 and till now our endeavours to find a person capable of continuing the labours 

 of our lamented colleague, have been unsuccessful. On the other hand how- 

 ever, Mr. v. Kinsbergen has again been commissioned by Government to 

 complete the present collection of photographs by reproducing in detail that 

 most splendid monument in the residency of Kadce known to all students 

 of Hindu art and history under the widespread name of the Boro Boedoer. 



' Some more remnants of the earlier period of history in that part of 

 Java will be added to the collection, and through the liberality of our 

 Government, the learned world in Europe will in a couple of years have at 

 their disposal a nearly complete representation of the most remarkable 

 remains of the Hindu period, which have escaped the mutilating hand of 

 man, and the destructive influence of time and climate.' 



The President drew the attention of the meeting to the unusually 

 valuable and interesting nature of this fine collection of photographs and 

 proposed a vote of thanks to the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences. 



Mr. Blochmann seconded the proposal, and it was carried unanimously. 



4. From the French Minister of Marine, Paris. — A copy of " Voyage 

 d'Exploration en Indo-Chine," by M. M. de Lagree and Gamier. 



A vote of thanks to the French Department of Marine for this splendid 

 work, proposed by the President, seconded by Mr. Blochmann, was carried 

 unanimously. 



