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notes, printed clearly and in perfect preservation. 
[[underlined]] FRESCO [[/underlined]] I was shown but one fragment of fresco painting, too small to judge with accuracy, but suggesting no such age as those in Berlin among the Chotscho finds. 
[[underlined]] POTTERY [[/underlined]] The pottery being still boxed up in the cellar store-rooms I had small opportunity to examine it. The few fragments chosen at random from the boxes had to be examined under dim artificial light as the electric fixtures were not attached. Some proved to be fragments of blue Chun yao, on which were red [[underlined]] flambe [[/underlined]] marks of the definite sort [[strike out]]which [[strike out]] ^[[that]] seem to have applied with a brush, and that we associate with the Yuan dynasty or later. Others were celadons of characteristic grey fine stone-ware body clay and light green glaze with incised decoration underneath it. One had an "iron foot" glazed on the bottom, and the other, no trace of iron color on the foot, but a ring wiped bare of glaze and leaving a circle of glaze in the centre. In addition there were several pieces of grey earthenware covered with a thin brown crazed glaze ^[[which]] chipped easily off. This I took to be a household ware of a type apparently in common use from the Sung period to the present time. 
[[underlined]] MOHAMETAN FIND [[/underlined]] A Book-cover of tooled leather, in arabesque design, was obviously Of Mohametan origin. But I had no way of finding out whether it was a later "intrusion" or had been deposited at the same time with the other material. 
[[underlined]] MONGOLIA AND TIBET [[/underlined]] Prince dy Oukhtomsky, Curator of Ethnology of the Emperor Alexander III Museum, with whom I