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INTRODUCTION xxiii XXXI), as well as the improved drawings of many of the sketch plans of sites and ruins, are from Mr. Andrews' hand. I cannot feel too grateful for the kindly Fate which has allowed the record of all my archaeological labours' to benefit for the last 38 years by the expert knowledge and unfailing thoroughness of this cherished friend and collaborator. I am anxious to avail myself of the opportunity here offered to record an expression, inadvertently long delayed, of my grateful appreciation of the valuable help rendered by Miss Joan Joshua at the British Museum when, during intervals of the years 1933-4, she assisted Mr. Andrews in the arrangement of the large collection of ancient ceramics brought back from my first two Persian expeditions. She subsequently rendered assistance also in the preparation of the plates which illustrate these and other antiquities in my Archaeological Reconnaissances. I regret not to have made earlier reference to this help rendered with much care and artistic skill. But the circumstances in which the Introduction to that volume had to be written may, I hope, excuse the omission. Here it may also find convenient mention that since Innermost Asia dealing with my third Central-Asian expedition was published, much valuable work has been done by Miss Joshua at the British Museum on the conservation of the large collection of ancient textile fragments, etc., recovered from Kara-khoto and other sites. For the topographical portion of my task, I had the advantage once again, as on my previous journeys in Iran, of the devoted help of Surveyor Muhammad Ayüb Khan, whom the Survey of India Department kindly agreed to