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boundaries of the country.  In the first place the culture of the trade-routes is a phase in itself which shows China in the making.  Then, certain of the units which went to make up the Chinese race can be found today near the Northern and Western boundaries, under conditions more like the original ones than any which can be studied in China today.  There, languages, arts, and crafts, folk-lore and conditions of life exist which the archeologist must consider before attempting to solve questions arising in Central China.  There, later "intrusions" or isolated samples of true Chinese civilization are to be found, representing accurately the China of the great colonizing and exploring periods from the fourth to the tenth centuries A.D., and still later under the Yuan and Ming dynasties.
     It is these facts which lent peculiar interest to the collection which I found in process of installation at St. Petersburg.  Later the matter was brought home to me with renewed force, when I found that the American School was to be given the opportunity of exploration and collection over large areas where evidence of archaic and mediaeval Chinese civilization is knows to exist.
[[Margin]][[Underlined]]DISCUSSION OF KOZLOFF FIND[[/Margin]][[/Underlined]] Of the two or three hundred paintings brought back in 1909 by Dr. Kozloff, fully one hundred were mounted and could therefore be handled and studied. On the whole they were in a surprisingly good state of preservation, and the climatic conditions of that region must be remarkable to have kept them so nearly perfect.
     Dr. Miller could tell me little concerning the find