IN June, 1900, I was placed by the Government of India on a year's special duty, for the
purpose of archæological explorations in the southern portion of Chinese Turkestan, and …

IN Junc, 1900, the Government of India placed me on a year's special duty in order to enable
me to carry out a long-cherished plan of archaeological explorations in the southern portion …

THE present work is intended to describe in detail the archaeological results of the
explorations which I carried out in 1900-01, under the orders of the Government of India, in …

THE excavations at Bhīṭā, near Allahabad, which I am about to describe, signalize a new
departure in Indian Archaeology; for they mark the first occasion on which a serious effort …

THE journey described in these pages was carried out in the year 1900-01, under the
auspices of the Government of India. Its main object was the systematic exploration of …

THE present Report ought to have been issued before Christmas last, and this would have
been done but for unavoidable delays. Had it been so, however, it must have been issued …

I am often asked why, having passed my life till nearly threescore and ten in geological work,
I turned to archeology, and what led me to choose remote Central Asia as a promising field …

1. In accordance with a recommendation of the Government of India approved by His
Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Despatch No. 81 Public (Education), dated 10th July …

158 MEADOWS TAYLOR-Oil Prehistornic pected honour, not being a member of the
Society, that I should have been invited to illustrate it. The question is one in which I take a …

IN Shiraz there ended in May 1934 the third of the journeys which had carried me from the
extreme south-east of Iran and up the Gulf coast into Fars, the ancient Persis. It was hence …