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medical missionaries, who are iiaturall\- interested in investigations 

 of that nature. 



\\ hile at Peking, certain investigations were carried on. with the 

 help of Professor Davidson Black, on Chinese teeth ; and a conference 

 was held with the representatives of several Chinese ministries, as 

 well as of the Chinese Geological Survey and the Peking Union 



Fig. 84. — A Korean girl. 



Medical College, on the subject of the foimdation at Peking of a 

 " Museum of Natural History of Cliina," the establishment of which 

 would mean so much for the progress of the Chinese themselves, and 

 for facilitating the work of foreign men of science in the Chinese 

 Republic. There exists already, under the direction of Dr. V . K. 

 Ting, a very creditable geological museum, which could serve as a 

 nucleus of the more comprehensive institution. 



