correction: transliteration of the names of chinese buddhist monks
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Correction: Transliteration of the Names of Chinese Buddhist MonksAuthor(s): J. R. WareSource: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1932), p. 269Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/593040 .
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Notes of the Society, Correction 269
exhaustive consideration, and the scope of the investigation presents an unusual insight into the rich bibliography of Chinese natural science scarcely suspected by the occidental student. As the author observes in his earlier study on Geophagy (Field Museum of Natural History, Pub. 280, p. 101), "the days are gone when the discussion of a problem started with the Greeks and Romans whose importance in the history of civilization is not much greater than, and in many respects inferior to, that of the Asiatic nations."
University of California. EssoN M. GALE.
NOTES OF THE SOCIETY
The Society has lost by death two of its elder members distinguished for their scholarly attainments: Dr. Edward Washburn Hopkins, professor emeritus of Sanskrit in Yale University, who died on July 16, 1932; and Rev. Dr. Justin E. Abbott, of Summit, N. J., formerly a missionary in India, who died on June 19, 1932.
By recent action of the Corporation of Yale University Professor John C. Archer has been appointed to the newly established Hoober Professor- ship of Comparative Religion.
The Executive Committee has elected the following persons as corporate members:
Mr. Hugh Borton Prof. George A. Odgers Prof. Edwin E. Calverly Rev. Prof. John Paterson Mrs. B. C. Merrill Prof. J. Frank Reed.
CORRECTION
In my article on "Transliteration of the Names of Chinese Buddhist Monks," in the JOURNAL, vol. 52, the following errors occurred:
p. 160, line 14, read ait for A4. p. 162, line 10, read I for U. p. 162, line 4 from bottom, read f for ;.
Harvard University. J. R. WAB.
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