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Angkor which show the high water mark of Brahman Civaic art. At Paris I had seen fragmentary examples of this work and had been shown reproductions of the architectural remains, and at Hanoi all my talks with the staff of the French School quickened this interest.
While realizing fully that the American School will probably never be confronted with the jungle conditions which meet the archaeologist at Angkor, nevertheless I believed that a brief visit to the ruins of Cambodia would be of incalculable value to me and that a chance to observe  the French manner of dealing with architectural monuments would provide many hints that might be subsequently useful to our School.
It is to be expected that, before long, we shall be made responsible for the study and preservation of some at least of the architectural monuments of China. When this takes place I recommend that the observations which follow be considered.
One week of the ten days' stay at Angkor had passed before I was able to get into a relationship with M. Commaille, the Curator, and to work out with him the details of a plan which has great promise for the future. It is worth remarking here, that in this case as in almost every other, personal intercourse with foreign scientists brought out opportunities for work and suggestions concerning the future School which correspondence could never have developed.
AMERICAN STUDENT M. Commaille, being in need of a European
AT ANGKOR assistant and having failed to get appropriations for the purpose, suggested that some American scholar might be glad of an opportunity of being attached to the French

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