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SCIENCE. 



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building, to be known as Bishop Hall. This 

 room he had arranged and decorated by the 

 noted firm of Allard Freres, of Paris, to make 

 it the finest example on this continent of the 

 style of Louis XY. The collection is here 

 placed in some fifteen elegant cases, of gilt 

 bronze and plate glass, all in Louis XY. style, 

 which with the decorations of the room, illus- 

 trate a permanence and richness of material 

 never excelled in the time of the artistic 

 French monarch himself. 



In my notice before mentioned, reference 

 was made to the remarkable volume describing 

 this collection, and to the studies and re- 

 searches in connection with it provided for 

 and sustained by Mr. Bishop. It is a pleasure 

 to me to be able to state that at the present 

 time the entire edition of this unique work, 

 limited to one hundred copies, is not only 

 printed but bound. The two copies required 

 by law, in order to secure the copyright, are 

 already placed in the National Library; and 

 by January 2 the whole edition of this sump- 

 tuous publication, so valuable from both a 

 scientific and an artistic standpoint, will be 

 distributed, or at least on its way, to the 

 crowned heads and the important public insti- 

 tutions that are to receive copies by the terms 

 of Mr. Bishop's will. In no case will the 

 book go to any private individual, and in no 

 case will it be sold. 



The two volumes (stately folios)^ are print- 

 ed on the finest quality of linen paper, and 

 weigh respectively 69 and 55 pounds, or 124 

 pounds together. They contain 570 pages 

 (Yol. I., 277 pp.; Yol. II., 293 pp.), measuring 

 19-15/16 by 26-1/4 inches. There are 150 

 full-page illustrations, in the highest style 

 of execution — ^water-color, etching and litho- 

 graph, and nearly 300 pen-and-ink sketches 

 in the text. In cost, this great work is double 

 that of the mouTmaental folio of Audubon's 

 ' Birds of America,' amounting to about 

 $2,000 a copy, and stands alone as perhaps the 

 greatest volume ever issued, and certainly the 

 greatest catalogue of a collection in any 



^ ' Catalog and Investigations in Jade,' pub- 

 lished by Heber R. Bishop (folio). New York, 

 1906. 



branch of science or art. The total expense 

 of 100 copies being $185,000. 



The preparation of this great work was 

 made possible by the princely liberality of 

 Mr. Bishop,- who had planned it fully since 

 about 1886. To carry out these plans to their 

 completion in the final distribution now to be 

 made, has taken, therefore, just about twenty 

 years. No expense nor care was spared in the 

 execution; some thirty scientific men and art 

 specialists, both in Europe and America, were 

 engaged to contribute their views upon vari- 

 ous aspects of the whole subject; and the 

 illustrations were prepared in the finest pos- 

 sible manner, Chinese and Japanese artists 

 being employed to execute many of them, and 

 color experts being freely consulted, with the 

 supervision of Mr. Bishop himself. 



The catalogue has, moreover, a special value 

 from the fact that all the scientific investiga- 

 tions described therein were made upon ma- 

 terial taken from specimens in the collection 

 itself. These studies were in charge of the 

 writer, assisted by a number of scientific 

 specialists of the highest standing, and deal 

 with all the physical properties of the dif- 

 ferent varieties of jade. 



A full list of collaborators is as follows: 



Dr. George Frederick Kunz, in charge of the 

 mineralogical and archeological articles and de- 

 scriptions. 



Dr. Stephen W. Bushell, G.M.G. (Chinese arti- 

 cle). 



Dr. Robert Lilley (editor). 



Tadamasa Hayashi ( Chinese and Japanese ) . 



Dr. William Halloek, professor of physics in 

 Columbia University, New York. 



Dr. S. L. Penfield, M.A., professor of mineral- 

 ogy, Yale University. 



Dr. Henry W. Foote, Sheffield Scientific School 

 at Yale University. 



Dr. Joseph P. Iddings, professor of petrology at 

 University cf Chicago. 



Professor F. W. Clarke,' chief chemist, U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



Mr. Ira Harvey Woolson, adjunct professor of 

 engineering at Columbia University. 



Mr. Logan Waller Page, expert in charge of 

 physical tests, Division of Chemistry, Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



