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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
It must come some time and it shall come now, this confession of error committed and published, and by this writing recanted. The error concerns the date of the many fragments of inscribed bones exhumed in 1899 in the Honan province of North China. Contrary to the opinions of two Chinese authorities, Liu T'ieh-yün and Lo Chên-yü, and of a great French scholar, E. Chavannes, I had in earlier papers attributed these relics to the period of the Chou dynasty. I now subscribe fully to the view of the above-named writers in holding them to be survivals from the previous Shang dynasty. Moreover, I am a convinced convert, and can proclaim my belief in the admirably candid words of the French politician, “Moi, je soutiens que la chose est ainsi; et ceux qui ne pensent pas comme moi, sont des sots, des brigands, et des assassins.”
page 70 note 1 See his Mémoires historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien, Introduction, p. cxciv, note 1.Google Scholar
page 71 note 1 “The Archives of an Oracle”: JRAS. 01, 1915, pp. 58–9.Google Scholar
page 73 note 1 Presumably this is the relative part of the Ching Tien Shih Wên 
See Legge, 's Chinese Classics, vol. iii, pt. i, Prolegomena, p. 205.Google Scholar
page 73 note 2 The actual form there is 
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page 76 note 1 See Chavannes, ' Mémoires historiques, etc., vol. i, p. 191.Google Scholar
page 77 note 1 I do not find this particular title among the hsiao wei enumerated in Appendix I of vol. ii of Chavannes' Mémoires historiques.
page 78 note 1 See “A Funeral Elegy and a Family Tree inscribed on Bone”: JRAS. 10, 1912, PI. II.Google Scholar
page 80 note 1 “The Chinese Numerals and their Notational Systems”: JRAS. 10, p. 759.Google Scholar
page 82 note 1 Mémoires historiques, etc., vol. i, pp. 175–6.Google Scholar
page 85 note 1 The Chinese Classics, vol. iii, pt. ii, p. 452.Google Scholar
page 89 note 1 
yu yin Shih P'ien Shao Kung ming Ch'ou, but the Shou Wen's actual text does not here insert the two characters 
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