His Excellency Max von Brandt
Ex-German Ambassador to China and Minister in Japan

Francis H. Skrine
Traveller and Explorer; late of the Indian Civil Service

Holland Thompson, Ph. D.
The College of the City of New York.

Dr. Archdall Reid, F.R.S.E.
Author of “The Principles of Heredity”

Arthur Diósy
Founder of the Japan Society; Author of “The New Far East”

Dr. K. G. Brandis
Director of the University Libraries at Jena

Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L.
Author of “A Political History of England”

Professor Joseph Kohler
Professor of Jurisprudence at Berlin University

Angus Hamilton
Late Educational Adviser to the Government of Siam

J. G. D. Campbell, M.A.
Traveller and Correspondent in the Far East; Author of “Afghanistan”