1.3.02026-07-22brevRådata515743arkivdokumentStatens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museetSMVK-OMDokumenthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/515743E1A-3_0028-0029, E1A-3_0029, E1A-3_00280029. | discuss more fully next month if our New York proposals are favourebly | received, I am sending this letter now so that you may have a definite note on the cancellation of our earlier plans for your files, With Sordial regards, Very sincerely yours, t VDA Davidson Black,Chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Peking Union Medical College., O028, DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE PEPING, CHINA. 25th February 1929, Professor J, G, Andersson, Ostasiatiska Samlikgarna, Sveavagen, 65, Stockholm, Sweden, Dear Dr, Andersson, & j Ny correspondence with you during the latter part of last year ; was confined to one or two hasty notes written while I was travelling, | Ås I have no copies of my letters I am not sure whether or not I sent | you any full statement of the steps the Foundation took with regard to our Central Asiatiec plan so I am sending you the following brief råésume for your files, I submitted your letter of July l4th last together with my de- tailed memorandum on change of plans to Dr, Pearce in New York just before I left for Peking last autumn, I pointed out that the second alternative plan you proposed was the one I should like to adopt were it possible to re&llocate the funds already voted for our original exnedition programme, Dr, Pearce pointed out it would be impossible to reallocate funds alresdy granted for a specifie purpose and said that the original grant woulé have to lapse as from December 31,1928, However, Dr, Pearce held out the hope that a new plan for anthropological research in Asia, including the i suggestions you offered in your letters of July 14 and 24, would be | considered were I able to draw up a detailed programme and buäåget in i consultation with Nr, Greene and Pr, Wong Wen Hao on my return to Peking, There the matter rested and Iwrote you from Vancouver last October saving ; that the Foundation's grant for our proposed cooperative research in — | Central Asia would lepse at the close of 1928 bringing to an enå the j agreerent drawn up in October 1926, Since my return to Peking I have been able to draw up a I detailed plan for human palaeontological research in Asia, which in AA | view of our continued success at Chou Kou Tien has met with the j enthusiastic supvort of Mr, Greene, Dr, Wong and Dr, Ting, Mr, Greene i ig now on his way to New York where early in March he expects to submit H my request for funds to support our new research programme, I am rather i optimistic over the prospect., The plan as I submitted it would make the research entirely under the auspices of the Geological Survey and I should become an honorary director of the Survey's Caenozoic Laboratory i nominally on the staff of the Survey, I plan further to take advantage | of your kind offer and ask you to colleborate with me in the fielå this i autumn and again in Central Asia in 1931, but these deteils I hope toTillverkadBeijing (Peking)Black, Davidson1929-02-25MottagenAndersson, Johan Gunnarimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10116253/E1A-3_0028.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10116252/E1A-3_0028.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0Black, DavidsonUtgången upphovsrättimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10116257/E1A-3_0029.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10116256/E1A-3_0029.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0Black, DavidsonUtgången upphovsrätthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkiv/204082http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/25083033http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1239710http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/html/515743http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/xml/515743http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/rdf/515743