Lieut. C. P. Caulfield, left, executive officer of the U.S.S. Monocacy, ana Lieut. J. B. Coz, second from right, executive officer of H.M.S. Cock-chai photographed as they reached the first Japanese outposts after visiting Kuling to report on the con mountain ndition of foreigners residing at the resort.
The local branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, at 20 Museum Road, [has opened its Slst season of fortnightly meetings with a programme of lectures of a more popular nature than has hitherto been the case. On October 27 Mr. Arthur de Carle Sowerby, the President, gave an interesting talk on "Nature in a Shanghai Garden," which was illustrated with a series of specimens of the local fauna and flora. This was followed on November 10 by another most interesting lecture by the Rev. Earl H. Cressy on "Chinese Tomb Figures," in the course of which the lecturer exhibited a number of the remarkable pottery figures exhumed from graves of the Han, Sui, Wei, T'ang and Sung Dynasties, which reveal so much about life and culture in China during the thousand or more years covered by those historic periods.
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