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978 writer on the Classics, astronomy, archaeology, etc., and various important collections were produced under his patronage. Among these may be mentioned the 皇清經解, containing upwards of 180 separate works, and the 疇人傳, a biographical dictionary of famous mathematicians of all ages, including Euclid, Newton, and Ricci the Jesuit Father. He also published a Topography of Kuangtung, specimens of the compositions of more than 5000 poets of Kiangsi, a list of some 60 works omitted from the Catalogue of the Imperial Library (see ), and a large collection of inscriptions on bells and vases, entitled 積古齋鍾鼎彝器款識. Canonised as 文達.   Yüeh 說 or Fu Yüeh 傅月. 14th cent. B.C. A sage of antiquity, who was so poor that when the roads had been destroyed by a flood and a gang of convicts was set to repair them, he actually hired himself out to work in their stead so as to earn his daily food. His existence was revealed in a dream to the Emperor 武丁 Wu Ting of the Yin dynasty, and that monarch circulated a portrait of him throughout the empire. He was ultimately discovered among the convicts, and raised to the post of Prime Minister.   Yün Hua Fu-jen 雲華夫人. A daughter of. She is said to haunt the peaks of the Wu mountains in Ssŭch'uan, and to have appeared to the Great Yü while he was engaged in draining the empire.   Yün Shou-p'ing 惲壽平 (T. 正叔). A.D. 1633-1690. A celebrated landscape painter, native of Chehkiang. He was also known as a minor poet. Is often spoken of as 南田翁.   Yung Chêng 雍正. A.D. 1677-1735. The title of the reign of 胤 Yin or 允禎 Yün-chên, the fourth son of the Emperor, whom he succeeded in 1722. His first act was to render harmless by degradation or confinement such of his brothers as had contended for the succession. The fact that some of his opponents 