136 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The ny K# Chao tai ts‘ung shu. The first edition was 
published in 1697; the last much enlarged edition which I have 
consulted bears the date of 1834. It contains 560 more or 
less comprehensive articles by authors of the present dynasty. 
(Abbrev. C. T.) 
The px jg Han hai, a collection of literary productions of 
various times, 160 in all, published in 1783. See H. K. V. 56. 
(Abbrev. H. H.) 
With respect to medical authors and treatises some information, 
not found elsewhere, has been derived from the i E 
Tung i pao kien, a general work on Medicine of Corean origin, 
already mentioned. The author places at the head of his work 
some short bibliographical notices. (Abbrev. T. I.) 
To determine the time of the authors I also consulted several 
Chinese biographical dictionaries, especially the #y Ae ZR Shang 
yu lu,—see Mayers’ Chin. Read. Man. Pref. XVII. (abbrev. SH. Y:) 
—and the sh ¥t #g HB Shi sing yiin pien (abbrev. SH. S.), 
published in 1784, in 64 books, a phonetically arranged list of 
the names of all persons whose biographies are found in the 24 
histories, giving also the patronymics and surnames, literary ap- 
pellations, ete. : 
Besides the abbreviations already given the following have been 
introduced into the subsequent bibliographical notes. 
P. = Pen ts‘ao hang mu (see p. 54). The figure indicates the 
page of the first book of the Pen ts‘ao where the title of the 
respective work is found. 
P. MAT. MED. = list of works on Materia medica in the 
same Pen ts‘ao. 
K. = Auang Kin fang p‘u (see p. 70). 
T. = Tu shu tsi ch‘eng (see p- 71). 
CH. = Chi wu ming shi tu k‘ao (see p. 72). 
These are the sources from which the short bibliographical 
details furnished in the subsequent list of Chinese works and 
authors have been derived. The general works quoted above 
necessarily form the basis of all future investigation into Chinese 
literature and bibliography; but, as-is generally the case with 
