A tour, of the Museum under the guidance of an intelligent teacher provides a really liberal education, Such as is not offered in any other institution in China. To help teachers and older students an excellent well illustrated guide book has been prepared by Mr. Arthur de Carle Sowerby, the Honorary Director, entitled "China's Natural History," which covers the whole gamut of Nature from minerals and rocks to ihe higher animals and even man himself.
A Chinese edition was actually in the press at the time hostilities broke out in the Shanghai area, when it was destroyed because of the demolition of the press where it was being printed. A new Chinese edition is now being prepared, and will be printed as soon as the Society has funds for this purpose.
It may further be noted that increasing numbers of Shanghai students and research workers are making use of the Society's library and reading Room, while the fortnightly lectures given before the Society and always open to the public have been attended during the Past winter by greater numbers than has been the case for several years.
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