94 Archzologisch Onderzoek op Java en Madura. [March, 1906. 
9. ahs ape asia Onderzoek op Java enMadura. I oe 
n de ruine bij de Tesa Toempang, genaamd Tyan 
Bitacca, 1904. —By Faruer Dautmany, 8.J. Cesena by 
the Philological Secretary. 
A magnificent volume of Archzological research has lately 
been presented to the Asiatic Society by the Batavian Society of 
Letters and Arts. It is the first outcome of the researches con- 
ducted by the newly established archeological survey in the 
Dutch East Indies, and it treats of one of those highly interesting 
results embodied in this volume. I am all the more anxious to 
do this for the Asiatic vere in that it was a distinguished 
English statesman an inistrator in the Far East, who gave 
descriptive and figurative details of rese istory of — 
Java gave the first impulse to closer lerntineiion “of the grand 
sic aba But although since his time some remarkable works 
whole nd of —_ Hindoo relics, could ze 
-seioes ie accordi erman proverb, “Gut Ding hat Weile, 
at thing ees time, ” And indeed it is a good thing, in fact 
‘Avciasals ical Survey of the Dutch East Indies — the leader- 
ship of its talented Director General, Dr. Bran 
he volume presents to us a complete srchinologial picture 
of a Buddhist San fai? in Eastern J ava, now-a-days ¢ Tjandi_ 
Toempong. ._The monument described is neither one of ae earl 
pe in Centr 
of the classical period, we must turn our eyes to Boro-Bodur 
