gramme of lectures, seminars and excursions and I should like to record our grateful thanks to those both members and visitors who contributed so willingly and so successfully to this fundamental part of our activities. Of these I should like to draw particular attention to the excursions. It takes not a little time and trouble to organize these, and a special word of thanks is due to those members who so willingly undertake these duties for us.
The following is the full list of our activities arranged during the year:
12 January Professor S. Y. Teng "Hung Jen-kan, Prime Minister of the Tai-ping Kingdom and his Reform Plans."
16 March Commander F. Warrington-Strong, DSC, RN (Ret'd). "Porcelain Manufacture in 18th Century China." (An Illustrated Talk)
22 March All day excursion Visit to Tsun Wan Temples and Monasteries.
24 March Captain Roger Pineau, USNR "The Japan Expedition 1852-1855 of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry." (An Illustrated Lecture)
6 April Mr. Frank Chippindale "The Influence of Chinese Art and Furniture on Chippendale's Design." (An Illustrated Talk)
18-19 April A week-end Symposium arranged by Professor L. B. Thrower of the Department of Botany, University of Hong Kong.
3 May Mr. Roland W. K. Chow "The Vegetation of Hong Kong: Its Structure and Change." (Demonstration and Talk, illustrated by slides) Peking Opera
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gramme of lectures, seminars and excursions and I should like to record our grateful thanks to those both members and visitors who contributed so willingly and so successfully to this fundamental part of our activities. Of these I should like to draw particular attention to the excursions. It takes not a little time and trouble to organize these, and a special word of thanks is due to those members who so willingly undertake these duties for us.
The following is the full list of our activities arranged during the year:
12 January
16 March
22 March
24 March
6 April
Professor S. Y. Teng
LE
Hung Jen-kan, Prime Minister of the Tai- ping Kingdom and his Reform Plans."
Commander F. Warrington-Strong, DSC, RN
(Ret'd).
"Porcelain
China."
(An Illustrated Talk)
Manufacture in 18th Century
All day excursion
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Visit to Tsun Wan Temples and Monasteries."
Captain Roger Pineau, USNR
44
(An Illustrated Lecture)
The Japan Expedition 1852-1855 of Com- modore Matthew Calbraith Perry."
Mr. Frank Chippindale
(An Illustrated Talk)
"The Influence of Chinese Art and Furniture
on Chippendale's Design."
18-19 April A week-end Symposium arranged by Professor L. B. Thrower of the Department of Botany,
3 May
University of Hong Kong.
"The Vegetation of Hong Kong: Its Struc-
ture and Change."
Mr. Roland W. K. Chow
(Demonstration and Talk, illustrated by slides)
"Peking Opera"
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