Museum, the Royal Scottish Museum, the Field Museum, Chicago, as well as the private collection of L. C. Hopkins, Esq., who has written much on the subject in articles in the Royal Asiatic Journal. It was they who introduced these objects to the Scientific world. But the place where they were excavated was not then known to them. Indeed, Mr. Chalfant thought that they either came from Chao Ko ch'eng iii} ww, the famous city of the notorious chou llsin her the last of the Emperors of Yin, or from the Tomb of Pt kan H3? Whom be murdered at the instigation of his consort if! A to see if there were really seven orifices in the heart of a righteous man. The writer, then, was the first foreign or Chinese archaeologist to visit the \vaste of Yin with a purely scientific interest in these objects. Many a subsequent day has be stolen away on his old white horse to tread the ruins of this old adobe city.

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