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forms of architecture. His occasional contributions to the trans- 

 actions of societies are too numerous to be specified individually, 

 and it is not too much to say that his labours, during a long series of 

 years, on behalf of Indian archaeology, were simply invaluable. * 



Dr. Burgess retired in June 1889 from the post of Director-General 

 of the Archaeological Survey. His keen interest in Indian archaeology 

 and early training as an architect had led to his being recommended 

 to the Secretary of State by Mr. Fergusson for the task of 

 completing a survey of the cave temples. In January 1871 

 Dr. Burgess produced his monograph on the Elephanta caves, the 

 first work published in India dealing with cave architecture on 

 comparative principles, and fixing the approximate date of the caves. 

 While making researches in monumental archaeology in Western 

 India, he did not neglect other branches, as shown in the pages 

 of the " Indian Antiquary," started in 1872 and conducted by him 

 for 13 years. To epigraphy, in particular, special attention was 

 devoted in this journal, and facsimiles, in preference to eye copies, 

 of some hundreds of inscriptions were published in its pages The 

 collotype reproductions of the Girnar inscriptions in his second 

 report formed the basis of M. Senart's elaborate work on the 

 "Inscriptions of Piyadasi." After carrying on the Archaeological 

 Survey of Western India for nearly eight years, the superintendence 

 of that of Southern India was added to Dr. Burgess's charge in 

 November 1881, and early in 1886 he was appointed Director- 

 General for the whole of India. In 1885 the value of his services 

 in the Survey had been recognised by the Order of CLE. being 

 conferred upon him. He had been elected an honorary LL.D. of 

 Edinburgh University in 1881. 



In May 1889, the general position of the Archaeological Survey all 

 over India was re-considered. The reports then awaiting editing 

 and publication comprised two reports by Dr. Fiihrer and Mr. E. W. 

 Smith, dealing with places in the North -Western Provinces, three 

 reports by Mr. Rodgers on the Punjab, four by Mr. Rea on Kanchi 



* A careful and sympathetic notice of the late Mr. James Fergusson from the pen 

 of Sir Frederic Goldsmid, will be found at page 113 of the "Proceedings" of the 

 Royal Geographical Society for 1886; and another by Mr. W. H. White, F.E.T.B.A., 

 in the Annual Report of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1886, pp. xxiv — xxxix. A just 

 tribute is paid to his services in the Quarterly Review for July 1889, in an article on 

 "Ancient India"; see also .Journal, Royal Institute of British Architects, August 

 1889, p. 356. 



