Excerpt from Engraved Gems, Their History and Place in Art: In Which Is Embodied the Author's Former Treatise, With Extensive Revisions and Additions; Reminiscences of Travels in the Pursuit and Acquisition of Engraved Gems; Also Interesting Incidents of Their Subjects After years of personal effort, and the Opinions of savants in France, Germany, Italy, and Greece, I returned to this country supposing that my fund of information in regard to a number of inscribed gems was sufficiently complete. How ever, with the valuable aid of Dr. Isaac H. Hall, Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, errors have been corrected and several very interesting inscriptions have been deciphered by him, revealing alike messages from ancient time and proving his wonderful power of disentangling gem riddles. I would acknowledge valuable assistance in defining the substances on which the gems are. Engraved, from mv friend Prof. Joseph Leidy of the University of Pennsylvania; other scientists are credited in the text for their important aid, which is here gratefully acknowledged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.