Interest in the Shanghai Museum (R.AS.), one of the major activities of the Royal Asiatic Society in this city, appears to be increasing by leaps and bounds, especially amongst the Chinese of the student class. During May the number of visitors to this institution was 8,254, which is over 2,000 more than in April, itself a record month.
Another important event in the history of the Shanghai Museum during the past month is the publication of a Chinese edition of Mr. A. de C
Sowerby's "China's Natural History A Guide to the Shanghai Museum (R.AS,)." The English edition of this work was published in 1936, and is practically sold out. The Chinese translation was made in 1937 and was actually in the press when the hostilities broke out in this area irl August of that year. As it was being printed in a Chinese press in Chtpei, which was destroyed by fire, the edition was lost.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.