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had the good fortune of constant association during my second visit to Petrograd gave me much information concerning Mongolia and the Tibetan plateau. I have received from him details which will prove to be of the utmost importance. 
[underline]SUGGESTIONS OF COOPERATION[/underline] The result of our consultations about our Mongolian journeys is that he gave me his authority to say that the Department of Ethnology of the Alexander III Museum is prepared to cooperate with the American School in the most practical way. The Prince has been collecting valuable data, in his last three expeditions to Mongolia and Turkestan, on the subject of an ancient pilgrim-and trade-route from Nothern India to Leh, and thence to China. This route has not yet been traversed by a European in spite of the fact that it is said to be easier than the others and nearly as direct. [underline]UNREPORTED TRADE-ROUTE[/underline] Mongol pilgrims from Urga report important early Buddhist monuments along the way; and as soon as I am in possession of the maps and the other material, generously promised by Prince dy Oukhtomsky, I expect to feel justified in recommending that the School take the matter up and send a small expedition over the route in the expectation of making important additions to our historical and archaeological data. For various reasons the Russian scientists believe that work in this region can be done better by disinterested Americans than by themselves. They expressed pleasure at the possibility of French cooperation suggested by me. It would be superfluous to point out to your Committee the value of this suggestion and the generosity of the