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       [center][underline]CO-OPERATION WITH CHINESE.[/center][/underline]

     Aside from native clerks and librarians whose services will be necessary at headquarters, and the interpreters used in the field by the archaeological staff, I recommend that a number of Chinese collectors, scholars and connoisseurs be in some manner associated with the American School.  As we do not require Chinese aid in our administration, these gentlemen should be formed into a committee for visiting the School and advising with the Director.  Their interest could be best kept up by meetings at which they could be informed of the results of field  work.  They could appoint sub-committees for considering additions to the library, collection of rubbings from inscriptions, cataloguing of Chinese monuments and antiquities, lists of private collections, suggestion of legislation to the Chinese Government, etc.  But they should have no voice in the policy of the School.

     This associated committee of Chinese will be found to be of great importance in case the School decides to take upon itself the responsibility of a museum.  Through them we should be able to attract loans of objects from active collectors.