CONTENTS
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
TREASURER's Report
THE LIBRARY: and the Library Rules
TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRANCH :
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A Hong Kong Spirit-Medium Temple-JOHN T. MYERS
Merchant Organisations in Late Imperial China: Patterns of Change and Development-WELLINGTON K. K. CHAN
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China's Economic Planning and Changing Geography—CHIAO-MIN HSIEH
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∞ NOA
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ARTICLES:
Incident between the Hong Merchants and the Super-cargoes of the British East India Company in Canton, 1811—J. L. Cranmer-BYNG
The Great Plague of Hong Kong-E. G. PRYOR
Notes on Chiuchow Opera-Helga Werle
Condition of the European Working Class in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong-HENRY JAMES LETHBRIDGE
The Employment of Foreign Military Talent: Chinese Tradition and Late Ch'ing Practice-RICHARD J. SMITH
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The Pacific Oyster Industry in Hong Kong-BRIAN MORTON AND P. S. WONG
Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong: the Story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945- DONALD C. Bowie
NOTES AND QUERIES:
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The Pottery Kilns at Wun Yiu, Tai Po-J. W. HAYES
The Noon Day Gun-CARL T. SMITH
The German Congregation in Hong Kong until 1914-CARL T. SMITH
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Boat People's Ceremonies observed from Island House, Tai Po-D. AKERS JONES
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The RAS Photographic Survey in Hong Kong—H. A. RYDINGS
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Chief Marshal T'ien, patron of the stage, of musicians and wrestlers-East and South East China-K. G. STEVENS
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Chang Yu-tang and an old Hanging Scroll from Cheung Chau-FRANCIS S. Y. SHAM AND JAMES Hayes
Hung Hom: an Early Industrial Village in Old British Kowloon-Carl T. SMITH AND JAMES HAYES
Typhoon Preparations in 1903
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