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[[underline]] STAFF; ARCHAEOLOGISTS [[/underline]]

     One of the most difficult problems in connection with the foundation of the proposed School is the selection of a staff of field workers and investigators. The question has been constantly in my mind since I started, and I submit the present plan as the best solution reached up to this moment, but one which may well be enlarged and improved in detail by your committee.
     I owe to Bishop Roots of Hankow, Bishop Graves and Dr. Hawkes Pott of Shanghai, and several of the French [[underlined]] savants [[/underlined]], the most valuable suggestions contained in the plan for training the future staff.
     In the first place we must face the fact that Chinese scholarship among Americans is practically non-existent in the sense which it is found in Europe. With the exception of three gentlemen who give their sole attention to China, but are probably not available for our staff, we have no students of Chinese art and archaeology and few of the language outside the ranks of missionaries and the Consular body. From these two classes, devoted as they are to their present service, we cannot hope to find recruits. It remains, then, to train a staff for the express purpose of serving the School.
     Happily for us the practical work of excavation and field investigation in China can well be done at first by persons with ordinary archaeological training and without special familiarity with the country or the language. While the ideal archaeolo-