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EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH
A variety of research programmes were conducted by the Univer- sity of Hong Kong during the year and brief descriptions follow of those that have special relevance to the Colony.
In the Faculty of Arts, the Department of Economics and Political Science carried out research on Hong Kong's consumption pattern, external trade and industrial development in addition to projects on the economic development of China. The Department of Geography and Geology continued projects on the structural fracturing and faulting revealed in the tunnel systems of the water schemes in the New Territories; the feldspar textures and chemical weathering of the igneous rocks of Hong Kong; the historical geography of Tibet and Chinese cartography; the changing economic geography of China; population changes in the New Territories; land use in the Colony; local geomorphological and erosional features; and the use of water in local agriculture.
Research projects in the Department of History continued in the fields of Chinese, Japanese, and South-East Asian history, the main subjects being Chinese relations with Yunnan during the T'ang period; the State of Nanchao; British policy towards China between 1894 and 1902; Anglo-Japanese relations in the early part of the 20th-Century; modern Sino-Japanese relations; modern Chinese intellectual history; and aspects of South-East Asian history since 1870.
The Department of Modern Languages carried out research and published books and articles on the modern French, German and European novel. The Institute of Modern Asian Studies continued its research on China's political and economic developments. In addition to Contemporary China, the Institute publishes a quarterly journal, The China Mainland Review, which contains, in part, research findings of its staff members.
In the Faculty of Science, a survey of the fungal and viral diseases of economic plants in Hong Kong made progress within the Department of Botany, and research on the host-parasite relation- ships of some of the parasites was started. A survey of marine algae, together with the collection of environmental data extending over more than a year, was completed. Research in the Department