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Russian scientists in offering to lay before us this unique opportunity for valuable work so exactly in line with our desires.
[[underline]]PROPOSED EXCAVATION[[/underline]]In addition to the matter of covering the trade-route, I was consulted by Dr. Miller and Price dy Ouktomsky concernig the possibility of the American School being willing to clear certain known sites in the vicinity of the [[underline]] stupa [[/underline]] in which the Kozloff find was made. The Museum is anxious to push the matter further, but have not the funds nor the scientists available.

They propose, therefore, on receiving notice from the Director of the American School, to place in his hands maps and data to enable him to bring back the material for which Dr. Kozloff had no opportunity to search. Dr. Kozloff himself has strongly recommended his Museum to pursue the exploration further, and expresses himself confident that the finds of the futere wil exceed in interest even those which he has been able to make.
[[underline]]RECOMMENDATION [[/underline]] As my examination of part of the Kozloff find did not disclose any material which seemed to be of an earlier date than the Sung dynasty, I recommend that this generous offer be accepted with the important reservation that the School shall undertake the matter only when the Director believes that colonial Sung and Yuan culture is a proper field to be entered. So long as his attention is engaged on the mass of earlier evidence known to exist in the basins of the great rivers of China proper, and on the Indian trade-routes leading to these centres, it would be inadvisable to divert