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100 it advisable to stop at Nanking owing to the disrupted state of the city which had been nearly destroyed by the recent bombardment. All collections had been buried or removed to places of safety, and with nearly half of the population reduced to begging on the streets, the time was obviously inopportune for the study of antiquities. As a boat was to sail two hours after the arrival of the train, I boarded it and proceeded at once to Hankow, getting ashore only at Wuhu and Kiukiang. [[underline]]WUHU[[/underline]] At the former town a missionary digging a cellar found some pottery and gold ornaments of the Han period. He deposited them with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1909, and at the same time reported that pottery of the same sort had been found in considerable quantities nearby. I regretted that I had no opportunity to pursue this matter further or to examine the many storied pagoda, supposed to date from the Sung period, which stands by the river side. [[underline]]KIUKIANG[[/underline]] Kiukiang is perhaps the greatest market in China for modern porcelain and I was glad of an opportunity to visit the shops where I saw a number of different wares produced in the region bordering on the Poyang Lake and brought to the river at this point for dispersal. Some of the specimens said to have been made for the use of the late Empress Dowager and the Emperor Kuang Hsu showed a technical excellence comparable with that of the porcelain in the beginning of the Ch'ing dynasty, but at the same time a decided lack of artistic sense in the decoration. [[underline]]HANKOW[[/underline]] At Hankow I was invited to stay at the houses of both Bishop Roots and the Hon. Roger Greene, United States