The Progress of Ethnology / An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man

by John Russell Bartlett

[A] Report of the English Baptist Missionary Society for 1845.

[101] Missionary Herald, Vol. XLV. p. 47.

[102] Chinese Repository. Vol. XV. p. 113.

[103] Annals of the Propaganda for 1846. p. 55.

[104] Ibid. July, 1846.

[105] Annals of the Propaganda for September, 1845.

[106] Chinese Repository, Vol. xii. p. 78.

[107] Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, July, 1846.

[108] Chinese Repository, Vol. xiv. p. 155.

[109] It is desirable that this word be expunged from all works on China and eastern Asia, and the proper words officers, authorities, magistrates, &c., be used instead. Every officer, from a prime minister to a constable or tide-waiter, is called a mandarin by foreigners, partly because those who write do not know the rank of the person, and partly from the common custom of calling many things in China by some peculiar term, as if they were unlike the same things elsewhere.