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months after the dreadful accident occurred. (See vol. IX. pp. 222, &c.) For some particulars of the affair alluded to in No. 3. above, see also vol. IX. page 327.
The vessel and parties alluded to in No. 5, are the Kite, Mrs. Noble, and others, who were imprisoned at Ningpo. See present volume p. 191.
ART. IV. Minutes of a general meeting of the Medical Missionary Society in China, held 1st July, 1841, with its second annual report.
THE Second Annual Meeting of the members and friends of the So- ciety was held at the residence of A. Anderson, esq, at Macao, on Thursday, the 1st July, 1841. At 2 P. M., the Rev. E. C. Bridgman, vice-president, took the chair. There were present, the Rev. Messrs. Bridgman, Boone, Ball, and Roberts, and A. Anderson, W. Bell, W. Leslie, W. Blenkin, P. Young, J. Holliday, B. Hobson, W. Lock- hart, S. W. Williams, John Slade, J. R. Morrison, esquires.
Mr. Bridgman opened the meeting, by ob erving, that the friends of the Society had now been called together with the view of inform- ing the public of the proceedings of the Society, and of affording to the members an opportunity of electing new office-bearers.
The report of the committee was then read, detailing the proceed- ing of the Society's agents since the last general meeting, on the 20th November, 1838; the continuance of Dr. Parker at Canton until the close of June, 1840, when he proceeded on a long purposed visit to the United States; the consecutive arrivals of Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Hobson from England, and of Mr. Diver from the United States; and the return of the latter gentleman to America, owing to continued ill health.-The treasurer's account showed a balance in the hands of the treasurer, on the 30th of June, of 1561 dollars, car- ried to the credit of the Society,-after an expenditure, since the 30th of November, 1838, of little more than 1700 dollars.
The medical reports of Messrs. Hobson and Lockhart, of the hos- pital at Macao, since August 1st, 1839, and at Chusan between September 1840, and February 1841, were also read. It was then Hoved by MR. BELL, Seconded by MR. BLENKIN, and resolved,