FOOTNOTES
[1] Till 1857 the East India Company's College.
[2] 'Finger-prints' (Macmillan, 1892), p. 26.
[3] See Appendix.
[4] I had him dismissed soon after for a different offence.
[5] The words 'signature', 'sign-manual', 'seal', were used indifferently in this letter for 'finger-print'.
[6] Clerks.
[7] Man in charge of stationery.
[8] Solicitors.
[9] I include a too brief notice of the subject by Professor Giles of Cambridge, in his recent work 'Civilization of China', p. 118, and an article in the 'Nineteenth Century' of December 1904.