"specious wonder-monger." But the final decline of Lacouperie's comparativist theories of the origins of Chinese civilisation was marked by the attacks of University of Leiden sinologist, Gustav Schlegel. Schlegel and following Orientalists insisted on the independent origin and growth of Chinese civilisation. In particular, these scholars pointed out that monosyllabic Chinese characters could not be equated to polysyllabic Chaldean words; that in any case, Assyriological knowledge was "dangerously uncertain" and too unreliable to make such claims; and that it had not even been established that Babylonian civilization was earlier than Chinese. Lacouperie's theory on the Babylonion origins of the sixty year ganzhi cyclical calendar system has fared little better, as the two systems differed both in concept and function: the Babylonion decimal system was used to count up to 60, where the cycle started again, while the Chinese system combined a cycle of twelve and a cycle of ten. Lacouperie's ideas received attention from some Chinese intellectuals and nationalists such as Liu Shipei(in his book of expulsion (攘書, rangshu)), Zhang Binglin (in his book, book of raillery (訄書, qiushu)) and Huang Jie (黃節, in his book yellow history (黃史)), in support of anti-Manchu racist theories (founded on those of Herbert Spencer and the Yellow Book (huangshu, 黃書) by chinese historian Wang Fuzhi) that were current at the beginning of the 20th century. His theory of a Western origin of Chinese civilization had reached Japan around the same time, the academic refutation did not stop it becoming a prevalent and populist notion. The idea for a mythical script, native to Formosa, was founded on a formulation of the author, though he also noted the paucity in quality of information from that region. A more durable contribution to scholarship was Lacouperie's identification of the ancient names of the Indian Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts from research in Chinese sources. Works Besides the works mentioned, Terrien was the author of: Early History of Chinese Civilisation, London, 1880, 8vo. On the History of the Archaic Chinese Writings and Text, London, 1882, 8vo. Paper Money of the Ninth Century and supposed Leather Coinage of China, London, 1882, 8vo. Cradle of the Shan Race, London, 1885, 8vo. Babylonia and China, London, 1887, 4to. Did Cyrus introduce Writing into India? London, 1887, 8vo. The Languages of China before the Chinese, London, 1887, 8vo; French edition, Paris, 1888, 8vo. Online at Internet Archive The Miryeks or Stone Men of