20th January
9th March
23rd March
27th April
9/10th May
25th May
22nd June
2nd September
27th October
Mr. J. L. Cranmer-Byng, M.C., M.A.
"The Macartney Embassy Through Chinese Eyes".
Professor J. K. Fairbank
"The Western Response to China”,
Annual General Meeting
Professor F. S. Drake, O.B.E., B.A., B.D.,
"The Jewish Colony at Kaifeng and its Relation to other Monotheistic Faiths in China”.
Symposium on Social Organization of Villages in the New Territories, including visits to villages in the New Territories.
Mr. Michael Lau, B.A., PID.ED.(H.K.), M.A.(HARV.) "The Fung Ping Shan Museum”.
Dr. Marjorie Topley, B.SC.(ECON.), PH.D. "Some of China's Little Known Religious Sects, and Their Migration Overseas”.
Mr. Tom Harrisson, D.S.O., O.B.E.,
"Living Cultures in the Niah Context of Prehistory".
Peter Scott, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.C.
"The Conservation of the World's Wild Life and Wilderness”.
16th November Professor Chao Mei-pa, B.A.
"A Brief Sketch of Chinese Music", with instrumental illustrations by Dr. C. K. Wong and folksongs by Barbara Fei, Winnie Wei and Lee Bing.
Of particular interest was the enthusiasm and the spirit of inquiry that were exemplified in the Symposium held on 9th and 10th May on the Social Organization of Villages in the New Territories which was organized and conducted by Dr. Marjorie Topley and Mr. R. E. Lawry with the active participation of two anthropologists from the University of London and District Officers of the New Territories, whose work had brought them