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measured plans and detail drawings have been accumulated, as 

 detailed in Mr. Rea's progress reports to the Madras Government.* 



Dr. Burgess's report on the Amravati and J aggayapeta Stupas 

 appeared in 1887 .f It contained the results of the examination 

 and further excavations made by him of the remains in December 

 1881 and early part of 1882, soon after the excavation of the site 

 by orders of the Madras Government, with photographs of the 

 sculptures, taken in 1884, after their removal to Madras. Mr. Fer- 

 gusson had offered to assist Mr. Burgess in the preparation of the 

 work, but this offer was unfortunately cut short by Mr. Fergusson's 

 death, an event which was nothing less tban calamitous, so far as 

 Indian archaeology was concerned. ' , 



James Fergusson (1808-86) was an enthusiastic devotee of art, more 

 especially in its relation to architecture, and he had published a large 

 number of artistic and scientific works, the more conspicuous among 

 which are "Tree and Serpent Worship" (1868) and " History of Archi- 

 tecture " (1855). But besides the former of these two, he published 

 numerous other works relating to Indian archaBology, such as 

 " Illustrations of the Rock-Cut Temples " (1845), followed by 

 " Picturesque Illustrations of Ancient Architecture in Hindustan." 

 In 1859, he edited Captain Hart's ' ; Illustrations of the principal 

 Muhammadan buildings of Bijapur," and in 1866 supplied 

 " Architectural Notes" to Mr. Hope's descriptions of Gujarat, in a 

 work entitled " Architecture at Ahmadabad," doing a like service 

 lor Meadows Taylor's two volumes published in the same year — one 

 on Bijapur, the other on Dharwar and Mysore. The beautiful book 

 on " Tree and Serpent Worship " referred to above, appeared in 

 L868, and a second edition followed in 1873, while " Archaeology in 

 India," produced in 1884, was a volume mainly elicited by strictures, 

 but which contains important elucidations of the earliest Hindu 



* These reports contain a lull diary of the work clone and dranings made, with 

 nunieVous notes. See, for example, Madras, 6.O., 13th April 1885, No. 882; 29th 

 Sept, No. 2,300 j loth Oct., No. 2.4 10; oth Dec, No. 2,330; 9th Feb. 1886, No. 

 281; 22nd .April, No. 835; 25th Feb. 18s7 : No. 286; 20th April, No. 58.3; 11th 

 June, No. 803; 21sl Sept. Xo. 1,361; 4th October, No. 1415; 14th July 1888, 

 No. 703 ; 11th Sept., X... 896 ; 4th Alarch 1889, N*o. 219, &c. 



f Archaeological Survey of Southern India. The Buddhist Stupas of Amravati 



and Jaggayyapeta Surveyed in 1882 by Jas. Burgess, LLJ»., C.l E.. 



Director-General of the Archa... logical Survey of India. With translations <>T the 

 Asoka inscriptions at Jaugada and Dhauli, By Georg Biihler, Ph.D., C.I.E., 

 London (Triibner), 1887, 



