1308 General Notes. [ December, 
ANTHROPOLOGY .! 
INDIAN ARcHAOLOGY.—The British authorities in India have 
prosecuted their archeological researches with commendable 
zeal. In the year 1880 appeared the charming volume, “The 
Cave Temples of India,” by Messrs. Fergusson and Burgess, and 
we have now to chronicle the appearance of two elegant quartos 
forming Vols. tv and v of the Archzological Survey of Western 
India. Volume tv is a report on the Buddhist cave temples and 
their inscriptions, being part of the result of the fourth, fifth, and 
sixth seasons’ operations of the Archzological Survey of West- 
ern India, 1876-1879, supplementary to “ The Cave Temples of 
India.” Volume v is a report on the Eleura cave temples and 
the Brahmanical and Jaina caves in Western India. Both vol- 
umes bear the imprint of Triibner & Co., 1883. Volume 1v has 
groups, both in Bengal and Madras. The caves are divi i 
among the three principal religions : the oldest and most ppe 
sive to the Buddhist, the next in date to the Brahman, gro 
smaller series to the Jaina. The oldest of all are the simple : C 
excavated for Buddhist monks during the reign of Asoka ( gc 
263-225) in the granite rocks of Bihar, and the series re : 
to the Ajanta caves, probably as late as 700 A. The aF : 
manical caves extend to the tenth century, while the Jem gom 
vations, commencing at the same time as the Brahmanical, W 
continued in the rock at Gwalior to the middle he ele 
f so much pa- 
tience, skill, and artistic advancement. ther want 
Accompanying these wuvres de luxe comes aa iv” : 
“Lists of Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency Sewell. a 
Compiled ane the orders of government by pir report ‘ 
Vol. 1. Madras, Govt. Press, 1882.” - The volume 4 ji know! 
of an investigation and correspondence respecting a iia Presi- 
sculptures and monumental inscriptions in the | Hey mio 
dency, in order to prepare the way for a detailed i en 
furnish general information for the guidance of many t. Asiight — 
Southern India who might be interested in the spe com et 
notion of the magnitude of the work may be gathe are de- 
fact that over 3000 villages are mentioned, and 325 oma 
voted to the enumeration of the remains and inscrip™” aC 
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