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[[underlined]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underlined]] 373-a.

bear up under the taunts constantly being directed against him by his Chinese associates, of being "in the pay of a foreign government". I learned subsequently, however, that the day after his connection with the Freer Gallery of Art terminated, he accepted a position, at precisely the same salary, with the Academia Sinica.
During my absence from China, the Freer Gallery of Art had continued to finance the work done by Mr. Tung and Dr. Li (both then still on our payroll), and especially that which they had been carrying on in coöperation with the National Research Institute at An-yang. In the latter case our understanding was, of course, that in return for our support, we were eventually to receive full reports of the work done there, chiefly at our expense, and also complete sets of the photographs that Mr. Tung had taken of it, with the cameras and materials supplied by us for the purpose.
Our relations with the local heads of the Academia Sinica during the remainder of the year were however not such as to encourage the continuation of our efforts to do work with them; for these gentlemen indicated only