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General of the Archaeological Survey in India for all three districts. 
After three years he retired from this office, and with his retirement the 
office came to an end. The work, however, continued, one very important 
development being the institution by Dr Burgess of the Epigraphia 
Indica, an official periodical devoted to the publication of Sanskrit and 
other inscriptions, with facsimiles, translations, annotations, etc. This 
periodical is still the leading organ of this branch of Indian research. 
Meanwhile he had settled in Edinburgh, and continued to fulfil his 
engagement with the Government, viz., to publish a number of volumes 
based on the drawings he had accumulated during his tenure of office. 
The last appeared in 1911. In 1910 he re-edited Fergusson’s Indian 
Architecture, and in 1913 published his Chronology of Modern India, a.d. 
If9f-189f. He also edited, with additions, translations of Grunwedel’s 
Buddhistic Art in India and Biihler’s Indian Sects of Jaina. It may be 
mentioned that at his instance the Orientalist Congress adopted the 
present accepted scheme of transliteration of Indian alphabets. 
After 1913 increasing infirmities of age considerably curtailed his 
literary activities ; but his mental faculties remained unimpaired, and he 
was dictating important correspondence only a few days before his death. 
He died on October 3, 1916, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. 
His antiquarian work must be regarded as the most important of all 
he undertook ; but it is well to remember that he was a man of keen 
interest in other lines of study. While engaged in education in India he 
published for the sake of his Indian students various English classics, with 
notes explanatory, philological, and critical. These are mines of informa- 
tion. He also published an Introduction to Arithmetic, containing the 
Theory and Practice of Whole Numbers, with Tables of the Coins, Weights 
and Measures in use in British India and the United Kingdom. This is 
in many respects, a very original work. He had indeed a strong bias 
toward arithmetical and mathematical calculations. He contributed 
interesting articles for a number of years to the Times of India Calendar, 
and drew up an important discussion on “ Hypsometrical Measures by 
means of the Barometer and the Boiling-point Thermometer,” published in 
the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. An article by him on the 
same subject appeared about the same time in the Philosophical Magazine 
for 1863 (vol. xxv, pp. 29-37). His most important and lasting contribu- 
tion to mathematical literature was his paper in our Transactions (vol. 
xxxix, 1897) on the “Calculation and Tabulation of the Error-function 
Definite Integral.” For this he was awarded the Keith Prize in 1898. 
Dr Burgess received from the Edinburgh University the honorary 
