RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963
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marvels of the life under the waters around us in the brilliant colours of Mr. Bromhall's underwater photography could not have been revealed to us a quarter of a century ago.

The lectures last year covered a wide variety of subjects, following the policy advised by the first President of this Society in Hong Kong, Sir John Davis, who stressed the importance of directing the attention of the Society to practical projects and to natural history, ethnology and botany as well as to linguistic and literary pursuits. The wealth of our local talent was strikingly shown by the fact that half of the lectures were given by scholars and experts from amongst our own members. The lectures given during the year were:

January 15th
February 26th
Dr. Herold J. Wiens* "Some of China's 35 Million Non-Chinese"
Mr. J. D. Pearson "Recent Development in Oriental Studies in Great Britain"
"Buddhism in Modern Life"
Sir Lindsay Ride "The Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao"
Mr. Ma Meng "Recent Changes in the Chinese Language"
April 2nd
Ven. Khema "Hong Kong Flowers"
May 7th
Miss B. T. Chiu
June 18th
Mr. J. L. Cranmer-Byng "The Old British Legation at Peking 1860-1959"
July 16th
Professor L. C. Goodrich "The Development of Printing in China and Its Effect on the Renaissance under the Sung (960-1279)"
August 20th
September 3rd

* Printed in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 2, 1962,
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