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preserved evidences of a kind that soon perish in  the damp valleys of China proper.
[[underline]] CHINESE [[underline]]       From Mr. Hobson of the British Museum and Mr.
[[underline]] POTTERY [[underline]]   Wylde of the Victoria and Albert Museum, both of whom gave me most generously their time and their ideas, and from the eminent collector and connoisseur, Mr. Eumorphopoulos, I obtained much stimulating suggestion as to what course investigations into early Chinese pottery should take. In general I found that, although many specimens of early ceramics are accessible to the student in Europe, both in Museums and in private collections, comparatively little is known concerning the proper classification of the material in terms of its [[underline]] provenance [[underline]] or even of its date. In other words, any evidence concerning the products and the locations of the potteries of the T'ang, Sung and Yuan dynasties would be as welcome to European scholars as to Americans. I resolved to give particular attention during my travels in Asia, to any evidence bearing on the subject of ceramics which might come in my way, and to endeavor to further our work in this matter by collecting material concerning kiln sites and their location, which might in the future prove worth serious investigation. This plan was strengthened by requests for the same sort of information coming not only from Mr. Freer and the Secretary of the Asiatic Institute, but from Museums and individuals in every country and city which I visited.
     A long day at the house of Mr. Eumorphopoulos enabled me to examine more specimens of Chinese pottery, of the periods in which I am particularly interested, than did my