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        "content_text": "190\n\nof Mr. Bolton of the Atheneum of Boston, U.S.A.\". This catalogue was dictionary in format and it included 2,125 catalogued items, grouped as follows:\n\nGeneral Works 324\n\nPhilosophy 278\n\nReligion 54\n\nSociology 65\n\nPhilology 120\n\nNatural Sciences 52\n\nUseful Arts 133\n\nFine Arts 84\n\nLiterature 340\n\nHistory 675\n\n(13) on Chinese languages)20\n\nThe need for a new and larger building became a regular topic of discussion, and the Shanghai Municipal Council became a frequent, if unpredictable, supporter of its causes, including the funding of the renovation of its building in 1909.2\n\nIn a guidebook written about this time, the Rev. C. E. Darwent wrote:\n\nThe building in which the society is housed is situated in the Museum Road, just behind the British Post Office. There is a good library of books, on Oriental subjects mainly; a good supply of the proceedings of learned societies and learned magazines is kept. There is an exceedingly comfortable lecture hall; upstairs is a museum. The fathers of the settlement did well for it; their successors do nothing.2\n\nBy 1910 the library was open seven days a week, and no longer closed for tiffin as it had in earlier times. Donations were increasing, thanks largely to its new honorary librarian, Florence Wheelock Ayscough. A **suggestion book** was put out. A Chinese “assistant librarian” was engaged, first a \"Mr. Woo\" and later a \"Mr. Wong\", the latter described as “hard-working and attentive”. These people presumably did the routine checking out of materials, shelving, and record keeping. The library remained essentially an institution serving the foreign community although there was some Chinese membership in later years.\n\nA bequest from Thomas Kingsmill, a long-time society member, enriched the library. Duplicate works were sold and the funds used to",
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        "content_text": "196\n\nNOTES\n\n1 Cordier, Henri. \"The Life and labours of Alexander Wylie.\" Chinese Researches (Shanghai). 1897, p. 13.\n\n2 Bridgman, Elijah C. Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JNCBARS), Vol. I (Old Series), 1858, p. 11.\n\n3 Ibid, p. 13.\n\n4 Cordier. \"letter\" JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4 p. P. xiii.\n\n5 Pott, F. L. Hawkes. A Short History of Shanghai. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1928, p. 85.\n\n6 Cordier. \"letter” JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4, p. xiv.\n\n7 JNCBRAS. Vol. V, p. viii.\n\n8 Cordier. \"letter' JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4, p. xiv-xv.\n\n9 Cordier. \"Preface to the First Edition\" in the Catalogue of the North China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, in JNCBRAS, Vol, VII, p.i.\n\n10 Ibid. pp. i-ii.\n\n11 JNCBRAS. Vol. X, p. ii.\n\n12 Cordier. \"letter\" JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4, p. xx.\n\n13 JNCBRAS. Vol. XII, p. ii.\n\n14 JNCBRAS. Vol. XIV, p.i.\n\n15 Ibid. p. xii.\n\n16 JNCBRAS. Vol. XIV, p. iv.\n\n17 JNCBRAS. Vol. XXI, pp. 358-359.\n\n18 JNCBRAS. Vol. XXVIII, p.\n\n19 JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXIV, pp. 337-8.\n\n20 Ayscough, Florence Wheelock. \"Preface to the Fourth Edition\" in the Catalogue of the North China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, (Shanghai, 1909), pp. vi-ix.\n\n21 JNCBRAS. Vol. XL, p.\n\n22 Darwent, C. E. Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents, 2nd ed. (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1920), pp. 171-2.\n\n23 JNCBRAS, Vol. XLII, p. 260.\n\n24 Ibid. p. 259.\n\n25 JNCBRAS. Vol. XLVIII, p. vii.\n\n26 JNCBRAS. Vol. LI, p. vii.\n\n27 JNCBRAS. Vol. XLVII, p. 88.\n\n28 \"Preface to the Fifth Edition\" in the Catalogue of the North China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai, 1921, u.p.\n\n29 JNCBRAS. Vol LVII, p.i.\n\n30 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXI, p, viii.",
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