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90 will permit. When they cannot be replaced, they should be housed on or near the spot in such a manner as to be of the most value to students and visitors. If the building contained objects of interest unconnected with its actual structure, these too should be restored as nearly as possible to their original positions. If they are not of a character or in proper condition to be thus replaced, they should be housed in or near the ruin after the manner of a museum collection. The precincts should be adequately guarded against vandalism, but accessible to students and other visitors. Since this report is confidential in character, I may give here certain criticisms of the French work at Angkor without laying myself open to the charge of a breach of hospitality. In brief my comments would be as follows. Their conservative restoration is admirable and never carried too far. Although valuable arch^[[a]]eological material was known to exist under and near the foundations, excavation was post- poned and the opportunity lost for recovering it when the buildings were strengthened from below. There is no museum on or near the spot, and no method of arranging or protecting the hundreds of thousands of sculptures which are being found near the ruins, and of which the original positions can never be determined. Thou- sands of sculptures, in more or less fragmentary condition, but still invaluable to the student of art, are shifted al- most every day by the native gatherers of bat's dung, and are piled in heaps over which the visitor must scramble in his