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condition of the monuments of Lahore, Delhi,* and Agra. Captain 

 Cole instructed draughtsmen to measure and draw the structures, 

 and submitted a report. In the following year, Captain Cole was 

 gazetted Curator of Ancient Monuments in India, and received 

 instructions to inspect the principal monuments throughout India, 

 a duty which occupied him up to the 7th April 1882. His first 

 reportf contained a brief history of some of the chief measures 

 taken during the century to preserve the monuments of India, lists 

 of remains, and of works of reference, and some rather interesting- 

 detailed notes on structures and antiquities in the various provinces 

 visited by him during the year. 



The second report appeared in 1883. J It furnished a list of the 

 drawings, sections, elevations, and plans made by Major Cole's 

 officers, and an account of his own rounds of inspection, besides 

 archaeological reports from several of the Local Governments. In 

 more than one of the provinces some useful steps had been taken. 

 Mr. Grant Duff, Governor of Madras, had been touring through the 

 Southern Presidency, and his visit had given an impetus to archaeo- 

 logical conservation and research. A special officer was appointed 

 to undertake the repairs of the Madras monuments, the appointment 

 being offered to, and accepted by, Mr. F. C. Black, C.E.,§ who forth- 

 with proceeded to Hampe or Bijayanagar, and the Seven Pagodas. 

 At Bijayanagar the work of conservation was vigorously taken in 

 hand, and 110 buildings cleared of jungle ; and at the Alaiva or 

 Shore Temple at Seven Pagodas, the sand was cleared away from 

 the walls of the outer enclosure. For Central India, Major Keith 

 was appointed Assistant Curator, and was despatched to Sanchi to 

 effect clearances, to re-erect the fallen gateways of the Great Tope, 

 and carry out other repairs. This work was put in hand, and by 



* A work on " The Archaeology and Monumental Remains of Delhi " (284 pp. 8vo.J, 

 was produced by Mr. Carr Stephen, in 1876 (Ludhiana). It contains a description 

 and history of every object of antiquarian interest in the place, beginning with the 

 site of the semi-mythical India-prastha, the capital of Yudishthira, which is supposed 

 to date back to 1450 B.C., and concluding with the tomb of the Emperor Akbar II., 

 •who died in 1837 A.D. 



f Published at the Government Central Press, Simla, 1882. 



J Second Report of the Curator of Ancient Monuments in India for the year 

 1882-3. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1883. 



§ Mr. F. C. Black contributed several papers on archjeological subjects to the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He died in 1889. A brief record of his 

 public services will be found in the Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil 

 Engineers, Vol. XCVIIL, p. 402. 



