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rumors of the doubt arising in certain quarters of the actual age of certain specimens attributed to times before Christ. Well, these questions did not effect their beauty and on these grounds all experts agreed, but it was important to know wether they had influenced the early chinese wares or whether the chinese wares had influenced those from Racca, Babylon & Sousa. In reading what had been published on the subject and in trying comparison of things in my own care and what I could learn in conversation, and discussion, I frequently ^[[recalled]] my one day and the others which ^[[followed]] in studying the Egyptian Assyrian and Greek departments of the British Museum and later the Louvre. Well, by dregrees, certain forms and colors of pottery and stone both glazed, and of early Egyptian