382 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 
James Burgess, C.I.E., LL.D. By C. G. Knott, D.Sc., LL.D. 
(MS. received November 12, 1917.) 
James Burgess was born on August 14, 1832, at Kirkmahoe, Dumfries- 
. shire, Scotland. He received his education chiefly at Glasgow, and was 
trained as a teacher. In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics 
in the Doveton College, Calcutta, and after six years proceeded to 
Bombay, where he became head of the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Parsee 
Benevolent Institution. Here he became greatly interested in archaeological 
matters, and began to contribute to the Bombay Gazette a series of 
valuable geographical and architectural notes. Some of these took the 
form of guide-books, and his activity in this direction led to his devoting 
more and more of his time to antiquarian research. In 1868 Dr Burgess 
was appointed Secretary of the Bombay Geographical Society, and while 
holding that position he did his first great service to the scientific world 
by starting the Indian Antiquary in 1872. Among his main objects were 
the publication of all kinds of historical and archaeological work carried 
out in India, and the encouragement of research in these lines. A feature 
was the reproduction of English translations and abstracts of work done 
by European scholars in other languages. His editorial work and two 
books which he published, viz. Temples of Satruhjaya, in 1869, and the 
Rock-cut Temples of Elephant a, in 1871. attracted the attention of the 
Government, and in 1874 Dr Burgess was appointed Archaeological Sur- 
veyor and Reporter to Government for Western India. In 1881 his sphere 
of work extended, and he became Archaeological Surveyor and Reporter 
to Government for Southern India. During this period he published 
a series of large, well-printed, and handsomely illustrated quarto Reports 
on the archaeology and architecture of most of the famous sites of 
Western and Southern India. These are specially valuable on the 
architectural side, but also contain the most ancient inscriptions. They 
constitute the beginning of the New Imperial Series of the Archaeological 
Survey. 
On the retirement of General Sir Alexander Cunningham from the 
directorship of Northern India in 1886, Dr Burgess was appointed Director- 
