# CONTENTS
## PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1968
## HON. TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 1968
## TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRANCH 1968
## Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative and Executive Councils in Hong Kong up to 1941
### T. C. CHENG
## ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED:
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### Militia, Market and Lineage: Chinese Resistance to the Occupation of Hong Kong's New Territories in 1899
#### R. G. GROVES
### Tung Kwu Island; the Type Site of Hong Kong's Older Prehistoric Culture
#### W. SCHOFIELD
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### King Mongkut and the Kingdom of Siam
#### R. BRUCE
### The Linguistic and Literary Value of Ming Dynasty 'Mountain Songs'
#### JOHN MCCOY
### The Chinese Descent System and the Occupancy Level of Village Houses
#### H. G. H. NELSON
### Some Notes on Ethno-botany in the New Territories of Hong Kong
#### ARMANDO DA SILVA
### The Mapping of Hong Kong
#### J. T. COOPER
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## ARTICLE REPRINTED:
### The San On Map of Mgr. Volontieri
#### RONALD C. Y. NG
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## NOTES AND QUERIES:
### Bethesda and the Berliner Frauenverein Für China
#### ALBRECHT PLAG
### The Comet of 1532 —
#### L. Carrington GOODRICH
### What Inspired Sir John Bowring's Hymn?
#### L. CARRINGTON GOODRICH
### Books from the Victoria Library —
#### H. A. RYDINGS
### Early Hong Kong Libraries
#### J. R. JONES
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### Defence Wall at Pass between Kowloon City and Kowloon Tsai —
#### W. SCHOFIELD
### Removal of Villages for Fung Shui Reasons. Another Example from Lantau Island, Hong Kong
#### JAMES HAYES
### The Occupancy Level of Village Houses in the Hong Kong Region
#### JAMES HAYES
### A Pair of Pottery Covered Jars found at Shek Pik, Lantau Island
#### JAMES C. Y. WATT
## BOOK REVIEWS
### Kelly and Walsh
## THE LIBRARY, 1968-69
## LIST OF MEMBERS
### HON. EDITOR
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