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 but the use of notes and maps made by Russian scientists for their own future use.
[[Underlined]] PROFESSOR [[underline]] [[underline]]MONTELIUS[[Underlined]] 
As aoon as a train could be spared for the accommodation of foreigners, I left St. Petersburg for Stockholm by way of Finland. In Stockholm, again, there was delay on account of the removal of boats plying to England. But again I could not regret it, because I had the opportunity to meet and consult with one of the greatest living authorities on neolithic culture, Professor Nontelius, Royal Archaeologist and Supervisor of Swedish excavations.

From him I obtained illuminating suggestions concerning our best method of attack on the unknown field of neolithic material in China proper, as well as practical illustrations of the [[underline]] cire-perdue [[/underline]] process of casting metals, which in my belief will be found to have much bearing on the technique of Oriental bronze casting in wax, and explains certain doubtful points hitherto unsolved.

[[underline]] SWEDEN. [[/underline]] In Stockholm I was received by H.R.H. the Crown Prince who spent nearly three hours in going over with me his private collection of early Chinese ceramics,and who asked to be kept informed of the progress of our investigation of ancient kiln sites. 

I also spent an interesting morning over the Straehlneck collection of paintings, bronzes, porcelain and pottery, a part of which I had seen at Shanghai in March.

[[Underline]] Great Britain.[[/Underline]] Leaving for Leith by the first steamer out of Gothenburg since the outbreak of hostilities, I spent two Days in Edinburgh on the Munro collection of prehistoric Japanese material, the most important collection of its kind in Great Britain.

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The third line has a typo in the original - do not fix please! (word: soon - aoon)