JOSEPH-ANNE-MARIE DE MOYRIAC DE, a learned Jesuit, was born in Bugey, on the borders of Savoy, and appointed a missionary to China, whither he proceeded in 1703. At the age of twenty-eight he had acquired such skill in the characters, arts, sciences, mythology, and ancient books of the Chinese, as to astonish even the learned men of the celestial empire. Besides constructing maps of China, Chinese Tartary, and the Chinese provinces, Mailla also translated the Great Annals of China into French, and his MS. was transmitted to France in the year 1737. This work was published in 1737 in 13 volumes quarto, and is the first complete history of that extensive empire. Mailla died at Pekin on the 28th of June 1748, in the seventy-ninth year of his age.