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our work. He gave his opinion that when the School has been definitely organized the missionaries living in outlying Provinces could easily be persuaded to aid us to the extent of supplying us with local information and sending to the School headquarters rubbings and photographs of the neighboring objects of interest. He promised on behalf of the Chinese Y. M. C. A., to take the matter up with his own workers in the field. He emphasized the fact that the protection of monuments was entirely in line with the activities of his society, who work for the material and mental improvement of the Chinese as well as their moral uplift.
[[underlined]]FOREIGN[[/underlined]]   Mr. MaGrath, of Mustard and Company,
[[underlined]]COLLECTORS[[/underlined]] showed me his paintings of the Yuan and Ming dynasties and one or two dating from Sung times, which were fine examples. He had also some interesting stone sculpture,early bronzes and pottery, all well chosen. His large collection of carved wooden lacquered panels from the ^[[M]]ing and early Ch'ing periods were striking. So far as I know, Mr. MaGrath has the only collection of old Chinese jewelry owned by any foreigner. I was unfamiliar with this work, and glad to have a chance to examine the specimens, together with a small and extremely select collection of snuff-bottles of great beauty.
    Part of the collection which had just been sold in Sweden by Mr. Strehlneck (1) had not been sent away, and I had the

(1) See the illustrated catalogue with text by Mrs. Ayscough printed by Mr. Strehlneck at Shanghai.