REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE NORTH-CHINA BRANCH OF THE Royal Asiatic Society, For the Year 1875. THE following gentlemen were elected office-bearers at the annual meeting held in the early part of the year : W. H. MEDHURST, Esq., President. GEO. F. SEWARD, Esq., Vice-Presidents. J. E. REDING, Esq., Treasurer. W. B. PRYER, Esq., Curator. Rev. J. THOMAS, D. J. MACGOWAN, M.D. T. W. KINGSMILL, Esq., Councillors. A. J. LITTLE, Esq., E. C. TAINTOR, Esq., F. B. JOHNSON, Esq., During the year only four meetings have been held; at which the following papers were read : : "Elucidations of Marco Polo's Travels in North-China, drawn from C. Holcombe. "Short notes on the identification of the Yuè-ti and Kiang tribes of Ancient Chinese History,"-by T. W. Kingsmill, Esq. "Notices of the Medieval Geography and History of Central and Western Asia; drawn from Chinese and Mongol writings, and compared with the observations of Western authors in the Middle ages,"-by E. Bretschneider, Esq. M.D. Three members have joined the Society;-five have resigned. The Treasurer also reports a falling off in the aggregate yearly subscriptions. The present list of members consists of thirteen honorarythirty-four corresponding-sixty-six resident-and seventy-six nonresident. A list of the members is herewith attached. For contributions to the Library, see the Librarian's Report. Appended also are the Curator's and Treasurer's Reports, the latter shewing a balance in hand of $258.16. The retiring officers recommend that some effort should be made during the ensuing year, to secure an accession of subscribers; there being many residents who would undoubtedly join the Institution, if made fully aware of its purposes and generally useful character. Librarian's Beport. I have to mention the important addition to the Library of a collection of the Journal Asiatique,—of a file, nearly complete, of the Shanghai Evening Courier and the Shanghai Weekly Budget,and a set of the publications of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. These valuable donations, the contributions of a few generous authors, and the Transactions of learned Societies, are almost all we have to mention in the list of additions appended to these remarks. During the last five years, the Society has endeavoured to enlist public sympathy and patronage to a greater extent, pointing out the wants of the Library in its annual reports; but the various appeals made have not fully realized the looked-for result. Unremitting attention and care have been bestowed upon the Library of the Asiatic Society; but the time thus spent, if not responded to on the part of the community, by a show of interest in its only i literary and scientific institution, is up.hill work, and naturally becomes disheartening. That the Library meets a real want is proved by the great increase in the number of works consulted or lent out, as shown by the register kept for the purpose. HENRI CORDIER, Hon. Librarian N.-C.B.R. A. S. List of Works presented to the Library of the North-China BERLIN. during the year 1875. I. Transactions of Learned Societies, etc. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. 1874, Nos. 2, 3. By the Society. Monatsbericht der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1874, Nov. Dec.; 1875, Januar, Feb., März, April, Mai, Juni, Juli und August. By the Society. Register für die Monatsberichte der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, vom Jahre 1859 bis 1873. Berlin, 1875, ppt. 8vo. By the Society. EDINBURGH. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Sessions 1873-1874. LONDON. Journal of the Statistical Society. Published Quarterly. Vol. XXXVI, pt. 4 (1873); Vol. XXXVII, pts. 1/4 (1874); Vol. XXXVIII, pt. 1 (1875). By the Society. Statistical Society Almanack for 1875. By the Society. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London. 1873, pts. 1, 2, 3; 1874, pts. 1, 2, 3. By the Society. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Nos. 116/122 (May 1, 1875). By the Society. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Vol. XXI (146/7); Vol. XXII (148/150). By the Society. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. XLII, 1872; Vol. XLIII, 1873. By the Society. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1/5 (1874); Vol. XIX, Nos. 1/4 (1875). By the Society. Journal of the East-India Association, No. 3, 1875, 8vo. By the Association. MUNICH. Sitzungberichte......der K. C. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München. PARIS. Bulletin mensuel de la Société d'Acclimatation. 1875, Janvier, Fév., Mars, Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, 1875. By the Society. Journal Asiatique. IIIe Série, Vols. I-XIV (1836-1842). IVe Série, Vols. I-VIII, XI-XX (1843-1852). Ve Série, Vols. I-XX (1853-1862). VIe Série, Vols. I-XX (1863-1872). By the Société Asiatique. Mémoires de la Société d'Ethnographie......publiés par Ed. Madier de Montjau. 12e vol., 2e partre (1873). By the Society. THE HAGUE. Bijdragen tot de Taal, Land, en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië. 1873, Nos. 1/2; 1874, Nos. 1/4 (published at S'Gravenhage). WIEN. Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient. Nos. 1/11 (15 Jan. 1875-15 Nov. 2875). By the Orientalischen Museum. Mittheilungun der kais. und könig. geographischen gesellschaft in Wien. 1873-1874. Vols. XVI-XVII. By the Geographical Society of Vienna. YOKOHAMA. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Vol. III. Part i, from 14th October, 1874, to 23rd December, 1874. 8vo. Part ii, from 13th January, 1875, to 30th June, 1875. 8vo. By the Society. Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur und Völkerkunde Ostasien's. Herausgegeben von dem Vorstande. No. 7 (June, 1875). No. 8 (September, 1875). By the Society. II. Miscellaneous Periodicals. Cosmos. Comunicazioni sui progressi più recenti e notevoli della Geografia e Scienze affini di Guido Cora. Torino. Vol. II, 1874, pts. iv, v (12 Dic.); 1875, pt. vi (17 Marz.); pts. vii, viii, ix (29 Aprile); pts. x, xi, xii (12 Nov.). Vol. III, 1875, pt. i (28 Luglio). By the Editor. Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record. 104/5, 106/7 (1874); 108, 109/110, 111 (1875). By the Editor. Trübner's Catalogue of Books, Nos. 8 & 10. By Messrs. Trübner & Co. Repertorium der Naturwissenschaften......1875 (I. Jahrg.), Nos. 1/6 (Januar- The Friend of China. Vol. XXIII, Shanghai, 1865. Purchased. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal. Vol. VI, Shanghai, 1875. From the Publisher. The North-China Daily News. folio. Vols. X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV (July 1st, 1872-December 31st, 1874). Purchased. The Shanghai Evening Courier. 1868: odd numbers (December). 1869, January-April (1 vol.)—odd numbers. 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874 (20 vols. complete). Purchased. The Shanghai Weekly Budget. 1871-1874 (8 vols. complete). Purchased. III. Miscellaneous Works. Journal de mon troisième voyage d'exploration dans l'empire chinois; ouvrage contenant 3 cartes, par M. l'Abbé Armand David. Paris, 1875, 2 vols. 12mo. By the Author. Conchyliologie fluviatile de la Province de Nanking, par le R. P. Heude, de la Compagnie de Jésus. Premier Fascicule. Paris, Savy (1875) 4to. By the Author. Manuel pratique de Langue Cambodgienne, par G. Janneau. Saigon. Collége des Stagiaires, 1874, folio. By Henri Cordier. The Province of Shantung: its Geography, Natural History, etc. By A. Fauvel, of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs (reprinted from the China Review). Hongkong, 1875, ppt. 8vo. By the Author. Uranographie chinoise ou Preuves directes que l'Astronomie primitive est originaire de la chine, et qu'elle a été empunitée par les anciens peuples occidentaux à la sphère chinoise; ouvrage accompagné d'un Atlas Céleste Chinois et Grec, par Gustave Schlegel, Docteur en Philosophie......Publié par Institut Royal .....des Indes-Orientales Néerlandaises à la Haye. La Haye, 1875, 2 partres, 8vo. et Atlas. By the Institut Royal. Dictionarium Linguæ Thai sive Siamensis interpretatione latina, gallica et La Vie et les Oeuvres de P. Chr. Asbjrnsen. Esquisse bibliographique et littéraire. Christiania, 1873, ppt. 4to. Babad Tanah Djawi, in proza. Javaansche Geschiedenis loopende tot het jaar 1647 der javaansche jaartelling, met aanteekeningen, van J. T. Meinsma. S'Gravenhage, 1874, 8vo. The Calendar of the Tokio Kaisei-gakko, or Imperial University of Tokio, for the year 1875. Published by the Director, 1875, 8vo. From D. B. McCartee, M.D. Le Congrès des Orientalistes. Ce qu'il est aujourd'hui, le rôle important qu'il peut être appelé à jouer dans l'intérêt du commerce français en facilitant ses relations avec les peuples de l'Orient,-le but pratique qu'il devrait se proposer:-par Charles le Mansois du Prey. SaintÉtienne, 1875, br. in 8vo. From the Author. Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo (Province of Shantung, North China). By R. Swinhoe, H. M's. Consul (Ibis, 1874, pp. 422/432; 1875, pp. 113/140). Articles by Henry F. Hance, Ph. D., etc. Extracts from the Journal of Botany:-On Pterocarya Stenoptera (December, 1873). De Nova Asplenii specie (May, 1874). On some Asiatic Corylaceae (August, 1874). On a small collection of Plants from Kiukiang (September, 1874). On three new Chinese Calami (September, 1874). Scirpus Triqueter, Linn., in Southern China (November, 1874). De Duabus Ribis speciebus e China septentrionaria (February, 1875). On a Chinese Screw-pine (March, 1875). Uses of the common Rush in China (April, 1875). De Iride Dichotoma, Pall., breviter disceptat (April, 1875). On some mountain Plants from Northern China (May, 1875). From the Author. Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce:-1st, Annual Reports and Minutes, 1865-1874, 1 vol. folio. The reports were not regularly printed before 1865. 2nd, Publications of the Shanghai General Chamber |