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monuments of Annam and Tonkin have been classified.
[[new paragraph, indent]] The Installation of the School consists in a library with work rooms, a museum, a house for the Director, and a house for the holders of fellowships.
[[new paragraph, indent]] The library includes only books on Indo-China and the Far East, and is increased yearly by exchanges, gifts and purchases. As it is primarily collected for study, the staff considered it wise, in view of the destruction caused by the typhoon of June, 1903, and the possible recurrence of such a disaster, to place certain particularly valuable books or manuscripts in the Bibliothe^[[accent mark on "e"]]que Nationale in Paris, keeping copies where possible. There are now (1914) about seven thousand European Books at Hanoi;   the Chinese library is so large and so important that no similar collection in Europe is comparable with it;   the Japanese section is particularly rich in historical works;   the Annamite section is unique;  the collection of manuscripts includes large numbers from Cambodia, Laos, Cham, and Burma.
[[new paragraph, indent]] The School has an almost complete series of rubbings of Cham and Cambodian inscriptions in Indo-China, with duplicates in the Bibliothe^[[accent mark on "e"]]que Nationale in Paris, and have begun a similar collection of Annamite inscriptions. The Chavannes expedition in northern China brought to Hanoi several thousand Chinese inscriptions, and the School has received from Burma rubbings of a number of Burmese and [[underlined]] Pe^[[accent mark on "e"]]gouanes [[/underlined]] inscriptions. In addition they