58 Address. [Y^.b. 



who has, also, recently ascertained tlie initial date of the Cliedi era 



to be 248 A. D. 



Bombay. — The Bombay Survey party made a tour last season in 



northern Gujarat and the west of Kathiawad, visiting Kapadwanj, 

 Vadnagar, Tarangi, Siddhapur, Anhilvadapattan, Mudhera, &c. in 



Gujarat, and the Jaina Urtlici of Satrufijaya at Palitana ; the results, 

 with a large number of photographs, drawings and inscrij:>tions, as 

 regards the Baroda territories, will, it is hoped, be brought out at His 



Highness the Gaekwar's expense, for whom a volume on other places in 

 his State is now under preparation by the Director. It is understood 

 that Col. S. Jacob of Jaipur is also making steady progress with his 

 work on architectural ornament and detail from the buildings in the 

 dominions of His Highness the Maharaja, and which will be issaed at 

 His Highness's expense. 



It is a most promising symptom of progress that these native 

 Princes are taking so practical an iaterest in the work of the Archaeolo- 

 gical Surveys, and helping them. The Bombay party is devoting the 

 present season chiefly to as thorough a survey, as its strength will permit, 

 of the architectuie of Bijapur, the capital of the Adil Shahi dynasty 

 (1489-1686 A. D.). The volume published by the late Mr. Fergusson 

 and Meadows Taylor has given the student some general idea of the 

 character of the Bijapur buildings, but a much more detailed survey is 

 absolutely necessary to illustrate the wealth aud beauty of the ornament 

 and details, and the variety of structures represented. This it is hoped 

 to accomplish by the present survey. 



Madras. — The Madras Survey under Mr. A. Rea is understood to 

 have done excellent work last season at Vellore, in the North Arcot 

 district and elsewhere, having made a complete survey of the beautiful 

 temple at Vellore, and of many others in the course of the season's tour. 

 Mr. Rea has also been specially requested by Government, and veiy 

 wisely we think, to visit and examine several prehistoric burial-grounds, 

 and his explorations have been attended by success, far beyond those 

 of any of his predecessors, in saving almost every object they contained 

 intact. From Pallavaram, which had previously been visited by Dr. 

 Bidie and Mr. Thorowgood, even in the rains, Mr. Rea excavated and 

 carried entire to Madras an early earthen- ware coffin 6 feet long, of 

 the most brittle material, with all its contents, and deposited it uninjured 

 in the Madras Museum. His progress reports and accounts of these 

 excavations are printed in extenso from time to time in the Madras 

 Government orders, aud would be well worth reproduction in a more per- 

 manent and accessible form. The present season is being devoted to the 

 Krishna and Godavari districts ; aud near Bejwada, Mr. Rea has ex- 



