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in their interest in the school and their offers of cooperation. Later I obtained a list of their names and addresses and made it a point to follow up my acquaintance with each one in turn. They all returned my calls, and several of them kept up communication with me during my stay in Peking and after. Their suggestions concerning the archeological evidence in the different parts of China was often illuminating, and I recommend that the School keep in constant touch with these gentlemen and others who have kindred interests. It will probably be found to be a proper policy for the Director to ask some of them to serve in an honorary capacity in connection with the School, and to invite them once or twice a year to meet and hear the results from the field and examine photographs or see latern slides of our activities. They should also be made honorary members of the school library and invited to deposit their more valuable books with us for safe keeping.
[[underlined]]CHINESE GOVERNMENT MUSEUM [[/underlined]]
Finding that several Chinese gentlemen had chosen the time of presence in Peking to memorialize the President on the subject of the foundation of a national museum in China, the American Minister, Dr. Reinsch, advised me to take the matter up officially. I called by appointment of the Premier and on T. E. the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Education, and Agriculture.
It had been arranged that in these interviews I should endeavor to find out whether a Museum were really contemplated and if it were, should discover whether an offer of aid on

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