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A large proportion of the photographs reproduced in this volume was taken by or for me expressly for this work. To Dr. Henderson of the Government Museum, Madras, I owe a deep debt for permission to obtain photographs of some of the best specimens in that collection. To the officers of the Archæological Department, Southern circle, and principally to Mr. Longhurst and Mr. H. Krishna Sastri, my obligation for similar help is equally great. I am also very grateful for the help I have received in obtaining photographs from Dr. Coomaraswamy; Dr. Kern, the Director of the Musée Guimet, Paris; and from Messrs. Skeen & Co., Colombo. To His Excellency Lord Carmichael I am indebted for similar assistance. It is a pleasure to have to record my acknowledgments for the numerous assistance I have received from my friend and *precepteur* Mr. Abanindra Nath Tagore, C.I.E., but for whose encouraging incitements this work could have never been published.