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.There is An Austrian veterinary surgeon established in Shiraz.
An Italian engineer is employed by the Municipality and by the Cotton
Monopoly Company.
American archaeologists under Professor Schmidt were at Pcrsepolis
in the winter of 1935-3G, but work had not been resumed by the end of 1930
The Bahrein Oil Company has been endeavouring to obtain houses in
Shiraz for summer quarters for their American and European employees.
Several Americans visited Shiraz during the summer. They have also been
trying to make arrangements for supplies of fruit and other local produce
to be shipped from Bushire. It seems unlikely that the difficulties of tran­
sport and of export regulations will be surmounted.
Foreign visitors to the district during the year 1936 included the
U. S. S. R. Ambassador and the Italian and Roumanian Ministers from
Tehran : the German Minister at Baghdad : the members of the French
Air Mission in Tehran and various archaeologists of American, French and
Belgian nationality.
Miscellaneous remarks.—Active work at Persepolis stopped in October
and' all the Americans departed, leaving a Russian photographer in charge.
Mr. McCown was sent from Rey to be in residence in the event of the
Shah’s visit taking place, but left again at the end of the year.
The Tombs of Darius (Naksh-i-Rustem) can now be reached by car on
one of the tracks made for collecting beet.
The Louvre Mission was working at Shahpur during part of the year.
The maximum temperature recorded in 1936 was 98° in September, as
compared with 98° in August of the previous year. The lowest temperature
recorded in the winter of 1935-36 was 24°. In mid-December 1936 the ther­
mometer fell to 22° on several days. The cold was unusually early as well as
extreme and some damage was reported to fruit trees, while many early
seedlings perished.
The rainfall for the winter season of 1935-36 was 4 inches less than in
the preceding year. Prospects for the present season indicate even greater
shortage of water.
A. S. WATKINSON,
His Britannic Majesty's Consul.

British Consulate, Shiraz,
January 28, 1937.