The annual meeting of the American Association of China was held at the {Shanghai Club on Friday night. The Rev.
L. Hawks Pott (President) was in the rehair, supported by the Ker. W. P. Bentley, and Messrs. V. G. Lyman (Sceretaty), F. P. Ball (Treasurer), A. W. Danforth, E. Quackenbush, J. F. Seaman, jand F. E. Haskell.
The Chairman sai my duty on behalf of the Committee to make a brief report of the proceedings of the past year. Before speaking of other matters, I must refer to the loss the Committee and the Association have sustained in the removal by death of an esteemed fellow-citizen Mr. R. W. Mustard. Tam sure that the resolutions passed by the Committee at their first meeting after his decease expressed the sentiments of all the members of this Association, While in health Mr. Mustard was a regular attendant at our meetings, and in "li our consultations we greatly valued his sound common sense and practical judgment.
vacancy on the Committee has been Hfilled by the lection of Mr, Edgar Quackenbush, When your Committee took cfiice in December, 1899, little did they expect that political affairs of the gravest importance were so soon to occupy
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