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ÖS b have been able to return to svätemnatia scientific work. I beg you very much pardon that the shipment of the return consignment has been in this way unavoildably delayed. Now I have taken up: Ond Work 'agäln and will try to have the måkäriel I packed svd shippad a & PORORAEhös 48 soon as the consignment is actually gone I will report kö FOU With reference to my already printed Maps, Hey are a...
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ÖS b have been able to return to svätemnatia scientific work. I beg you very much pardon that the shipment of the return consignment has been in this way unavoildably delayed. Now I have taken up: Ond Work 'agäln and will try to have the måkäriel I packed svd shippad a & PORORAEhös 48 soon as the consignment is actually gone I will report kö FOU With reference to my already printed Maps, Hey are as you VR intended to accompany my topogrephic volume, Zhe Prehistoric Sites of Northern China. Considerable part of the draft manuseript is already completed and I Hepa to 9 with she Somplete. AED to Peking in order bo supervise Che printing which should in tnis case certainly 58 acne in Peking. ; : ; However, this important voleme. must be accompanied by a consider able number of landscape pictures showing hå excavation localities. The photographic originals for bhese plates are quite ready. In order to save expense, I supgest that we try to make the majority of these | plates in copper-plate print, waich as den know, can be executed here much Betbör than in China. Collotype should be used only för such o ere which cannot come c out well in the cheaper 'copper-plete print, AT the same time, when zu work on the completing of this Ipeer SFöpbie 2 ORbg ER: I am preparing another volume on the large urns from the graves of Kensu. Recently a huge oonsignment of Kansu urns has been received by the fårm Wannieok RR Peris and such urns are now söld to the various collections of Europe. Under these circumstances I ; '"förkider it very important to press forward with the preperation of the monograph on Mortuary Urns of the Yang Säae Period in Kansu. A [- considerable part of the manuseript for this volume is slrondy prepared and we now begin to combine the pletes. Considering that this volume mist be exceptionally expensive as there must be several Bol6r plates in addition to the very numerous collotype plates I respectfully re. quest you to grant me a provisional Bl LOWAnce of five thousand dollars
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OFISa Östasiatiska Samlingarna, Sveavägen 65, mr Sweden SS April 23,1928 Dr: Wong Wen-hao, ; Director of Geological Survey of China, Feng=stiengoHutung 3; West City, Peking. Dear Dr. Wong » | I have t...
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OFISa Östasiatiska Samlingarna, Sveavägen 65, mr Sweden SS April 23,1928 Dr: Wong Wen-hao, ; Director of Geological Survey of China, Feng=stiengoHutung 3; West City, Peking. Dear Dr. Wong » | I have to thenic ya most sincerely för Signal kind letter of February (Ch, at the same time apologizing för not SY ss much. earlier, ; | | ; | "Before going into any further details I want to tell you something about the financial status of the small rd wnieh has been established 56 facilitate my research work. My annual budget from government sources änöunts only to eightoen thousand crowns /ten "thousand SeKtuE dollars/, out of which I shall . pay not only my assistant” 8 salary but also other collaborators, as well as heating and Slectrie ATenö It was from the beginning evident that this small amount would nit suf+ fice during the next few years when all our "large. material vEll be prepared, studied, photographed and described. | The worries for this insufficient budget threw me entårelj out of my track 4n the early part of this year, In consultation with Mr . Lagrelius, bo is all the time an unfalling friend to me and my work, I made up mg mind that it was necessary starting a campalgn for raising from private sources ten thousand ecrowns annually RA TTR the next five years, the period during whieh F count that the desoription of our prö- historic material will be fairly well completed. The ralsing of these funds has been a pretty hard job that took me away from all other | occupations, including the revision of the alresåy made descriptions of the funeral urns to be returned to SRIRA ån the AGG consignment. å After all, I am glad to report that ÄR have succeeded falrly well in my financial campaign and AUPALGE the last few ängs I
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