THE RUINS OF BORO BUDUR IN JAVA 



j HE y 



BY 



en. Archdeacon Hose, 



(Read at a Meeting of the Society held on the 14th Septemoer, 1880.) 



The following letter was received by the JLonorary Secretary 

 of the Society in May, 1880 :— 



" La Hate, le 3 Avril, 1880. 



" II y a quelques annees le Grouverneinent Neerlandais entreprit 

 la publication de dessins et d'nn texte descriptif des mines dites 

 ' Boro-Boudour ' dans File de Java. 



" Desirant faire connaitre cet ouvra^e aux societes scientinques 

 etrangeres, le GrouYernement du Eoi se plait a en offrir un exein- 

 plaire a la Societe Asiatique. 



"II est persuade que de cette facon le but scientifique qu'on 

 s'etait propose par la publication, sera atteint. 



" Le Ministre des Colonies, 



"W. tan GOLTSTEIX. 



"A la Societe Asiatique (Straits Branch) 

 « Singapore" 



The letter was accompanied by the very Taluable gift men- 

 tioned in it, viz., a set of three hundred and ninety-three designs 

 illustrating the ruins of the temple of Boro Budur in Java, with a 

 descriptive text in Dutch by Dr. C. Leemans, Director of the 

 Museum of Public Antiquities at Leyden. and a translation of this 



