CONTENTS
PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1972 -
HON. TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 1972 -
THE LIBRARY, 1972 -
ARTICLES:
Page 1 Transactions of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1845-46 — H. A. RYDINGS 11 The Yaumatei Typhoon Shelter, Hong Kong, 1900-1915 A. J. S. LACK 13 The Kam Tin Gates PETER WESLEY-SMITH 28 Early Steamships in China-A. D. BLUE 41 45 Persians, Arabs and Other Nationals In T’ang China CHIU LING-YEONG 58 Swatow (Ch'auchow) Horizontal Stick Puppets - HELGA WERLE 73 Five 19th Century Kwangtung Art Catalogues CHUANG SHEN 85REPRINTED ARTICLES
Legends and Stories of the New Territories: Kam T'in SUNG HOK-P'ANG (with a memoir of the author by Lo Hsiang-lin) 111NOTES AND QUERIES
Notes on Chinese Temples in Hong Kong — CARL T. SMITH 133 'Ling Chih' at Canton, 27th May 1886 Hai Ju; Ming Patriot, Spark for Revolution and God 139 KEITH STEPHENS 144 Another Volontieri Map? - William Thomas Mercer (1822-1879) Hong Kong's Poet Laureate? HENRY JAMES LETHBRIDGE 146 Old Bills of Lading (McMullen Collection) — H. A. RYDINGS 151 Visit to the Sukhothai Sites in Thailand — MICHAEL SMITHIES 154 Deep Bay Marshes 163 168BOOK REVIEWS
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