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latterly, at Yii-ho Chen in Honan, where some burials of the Han 

 dynasty have been thoroughly investigated with gratifying results. 

 But important as the archeological work of our expedition has been, 

 we are more to be congratulated, perhaps, on our success in estab- 

 lishing between ourselves and the Chinese authorities a cooperative 

 agreement with regard to archeological investigation which has 

 been confirmed by the unsolicited appointment of Mr. Bishop as 

 Honorary Adviser in Archeology to the Historical Department of 

 the Chinese Government. An arrangement of this sort was conceived 

 as the fundamental object of our expedition, and its accomplishment 

 marks the first definite effort of the kind to bring Chinese archeolo- 

 gists and officials together in a mutually beneficial and dignified 

 relationship with western archeologists and museums, thus pro- 

 viding in some measure, at least, a working basis on which a more 

 enlightened scholarship may flourish and gi'adually supplant, let 

 us hope, the ruthless and unscientific collecting of Chinese antiq- 

 uities on a commercial scale which has hitherto been allowed and 

 even encouraged to furnish so much of the material available for 

 students in this vast and increasingly important field. 



]Mr. Bishop's detailed account of his field activities accompanies 

 this report as Appendix B (not printed). 



Respectfully submitted. 



J. E. Lodge, Curator. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 

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