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From the Preface to Vol. 2. To the account given by Anesaki of his first knowledge of me (Vol. i, p. 47) I should like to add a few facts. It was while making my Buddhist Bibliography based upon the libraries of Philadelphia (London, 1903) that I first discovered some valuable articles in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society by a certain Dr. Anesaki. They were about the relationship between the Chinese -Sanskrit Agamas and the Pali Nikayos. I had written something myself about this, in the San Francisco Light of Dharma and had urged the Japanese to make this very investigation, little knowing that Anesaki had already begun it. His articles were duly registered in my Bibliography, but I did not read them until after this was printed. Then I realized that I had done him an injustice by calling pointed attention to my own poor attempts and merely giving the titles of his profoundly learned researches. From my friend Teitaro Suzuki, then of LaSalle, Illinois, I obtained Anesaki's full name and address, and wrote to him apologizing for my conduct and explaining that when cataloging his articles I had not realized their depth. This began a correspondence between us, and when I emptied my treasury to print the truncated second edition of the present work, in 1904, I very naturally sent him a copy. He immediately offered to publish and edit the whole, if I could not find an American publisher, and our joint edition was the result. Philadelphia: A. J. E. February, 1909.

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