More than 300 attended a reception on Thursday by the Royal Asiatic Society for members of the commission art experts sent here to select Chinese treasures for exhibition In London during the coming winter. Throughout the hour, Sir Percival David, Prof. Paul Pelliot, Mr. Robert Lockhart Hobson, and' Mr. [George Bimorfopoulos greeted scores Shanghai people prominent in official, cultural, and social circles. Behind them hung a magnificent Tandseape painting of "the Yuan Dynasty done in the style of Ko Chi, land owned by Mr. E, A: Strehineck.
Among those noted at the reception were:—-Dr. and Mrs. F.L. Hawks Pott,
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