The election of amicers was as fol-inal, 'A. resolution to this effect, Mr. Sowerby stated, had been drawn up and adopted respectively by the Board of Trustees of the International Institute of China, The, and the Cou cil of the Royal Asiatic Society, North Chia Branch, The resolution was then read. "It is hardly necessary for point otit the advantages to Both the International Institute of China, Me, and the Royal Asiatic Society of" this agreement to. ¢o-operate in promoting their aims, hich are so. closely" similar," the President continued.
"On the one hand it enables. the Institute to carry onl, na more effective manner than. would otherwise be possible, the objects for which was oFiginaily founded, while on the other hand it materially relieves. the Sociaty from the strain under' which it and at the same ible to extend the scope of its present activities in. many. directions "it must be borne in mind, how. ever. that the Society isnot quite of this must continue to strain every nerve to Femove the remainder "of the Society's indebtedness, for, until that "lleho De 9
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