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Such rubbings, he said, are in every native art and arch^[[a]]eological collection, and are of incalculable value.
[[underline]] SCHOOL [[/underline]] [[underline]] MUSEUM [[/underline]]
As for the possibility of Chinese cooperation in a museum at Peking, he was encouraging and believed the time ripe for it."
In addition to a long and illuminating talk, Professor Chavannes volunteered to give me letters of introduction, both for France and the Orient, to persons whose collections or opinions would be of interest.
[[underline]] CONVERSATIONS [[/underline]] [[underline]] WITH M. PELLIOT [[/underline]] 
In my conversations with M. Paul Pelliot, many points were discussed and opinions given by him which I have incorporated in various parts of this report. On the occasion of my first call he laid aside his work of translating an early Turki manuscript, which he had found in the tenth century cave at T'ung Huan, to enter eagerly into conversation on the subject of our School.
[[underline]] SCHOOL [[/underline]] [[underline]] LIBRARY [[/underline]]
In answer to my question concerning his opinion as to the activities which should engage our earliest attention, M. Pelliot had no hesitation in advising the collection of Chinese books for the library as the only proper foundation for future work. The European books on Oriental subjects could, he said, be easily selected out of dealers' catalogues and would not necessarily entail visits to the centres of the book trade. But to collect a Chinese library of native books would mean that a European (possibly with a Chinese assistant) must remain for several