Elizabeth Samson, wife of Otto, played an important part in the social network of academics and scholars to which they belonged. She hosted dinner parties and buffet suppers at their flat. She instigated the O.W. Samson Award in 1986-87. She died in 1994 after being knocked down, crossing the road.
Michael Salt was a student of King's College, Cambridge.
Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq, Baron d'Hervey de Juchereau, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys was a French sinologist also known for his research on dreams. In 1851 D'Hervey published his Recherches sur l'agriculture et l'horticulture des Chinois , in which considered plants and animals that might be able to acclimatize to Western countries. He translated Chinese texts and stories. He also published works concerning oneirology.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art includes the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Sackler Gallery features both permanent and temporary exhibitions from ancient times to the present. The museum is home to an incomparable collection of art, including some of the most important ancient Chinese jades and bronzes in the world.