JOURNAL 
OP THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
Part I—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
Extra-Number 1.—1901. 
A Report on the British Collection of Antiquities from Central Asia.—By 
A. F. Rudolf Hoeenle, C.I.E., Ph.D. 
(With 3 Tables and 13 Plates.) 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
The Second Part of my Report deals with the manuscripts, pottery, 
terracottas, and other miscellaneous objects of the British Collection. 
When the First Part, treating of the coins and block-prints was issued 
early in 1899, the question of forgery was still an open one. In the 
concluding remarks of my Introduction (p. xxxii) I pointed out how 
desirable it was that it should be investigated on the spot by an European 
explorer. Dr. Stein’s archaeological expedition to Eastern Turkestan 
was at that time already being organised ; and the Second Part of this 
Report has purposely been delayed in order to profit by the results of his 
investigations. His tour has now been brought to a successful conclusion. 
A full account of its results will have to be looked for in Dr. Stein’s own 
report. But the communications which I received from him, partly by 
letters written in the course of his travels and partly verbally since his 
return from Turkestan in July, 1901, enable me, with his concurrence, to 
indicate here briefly some of the results so far as they have a direct 
