Dear friends,

I call your attention to the following petition in favor of the maintenance of the Asian
Manuscript collections of the Bibliotheque nationale de France.

http://www.petitions24.net/pour_le_maintien_a_paris_des_livres_asiatiques_de_la_bnf

Please feel free to circulate to Asian Studies lists with which you may be familiar.

with thanks and apologies for cross-posting,

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Pro
fessor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago