JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
Part I-HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e., 
Extra-Number 1.—1899. 
A Collect ion of Antiquities from Central Asia. Part I. 1 — By A, R. Rudolf 
Hoernle, C.I.E., Ph.D. (Tubingen). 
(With 19 Plates and a Map.) 
INTRODUCTION- 
On two portions of this collection I have already reported in this 
Journal , Yol. LXYI, for 1897, Part I, pp. 21311, and in the Proceedings , 
for Apfil 1898, pp. 124 if. In the following pages I propose to give an 
account of the entire collection; and it will, therefore, be necessary to 
briefly include the substance of those two previous papers. For the 
leisure, without which I should not have been able to write it, I am 
under great obligation to the Government of India who, with the con¬ 
currence of the Government of Bengal, placed me on special duty for 
the purpose of examining and reporting on the collection. 
i This is my Report to the Government of India, published, by permission of 
that Government, as an Extra-Number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. [Part II. of this Report will be issued subsequently.— T. B.] 
J. I. I 
