A SYMPOSIUM. 



I. Lieut.-Colonel F. G. L. Mainwaring, late Indian 



Staff Corps. 

 II. Dr. James Burgess, LL.D. (late Director General of 

 the Archaeological Society of India). 



III. H. CoLLEY March, M.D., F.S.A. 



IV. Prof. Kakam-Okakura, Japan. 



I. By Lieut.-Colonel MAINWARING. 



IHESE Buddhist sculptures are a portion of a collection 

 made by me — whilst on Field Service in that part 

 of the North-Western Frontier of India, known 

 as the Swat Valley (40 miles N.E. of Peshawar) — 

 during the latter part of and after the Chitral 

 Relief Campaign, 1895-96. 



Whilst my regiment was encamped at Malakand 

 and breastworks were being made by the soldiers 

 with the dedris of dwellings rased to the ground at 

 some bygone period, I picked up a fragment of schistose rock, 

 which had been worked or chiselled into the shape of an 

 elephant's head ; and, conjecturing that it was a piece of orna- 

 ment of a Buddhist stupa or shrine, I enquired of some of the 

 natives of the villages in the neighbourhood where similar 

 sculptures could be obtained. 



