202 SURGEON-GENERAL @. A. GORDON. 
and I may mention that they are abstracted from a very interesting 
work by the Rey. John Chalmers. The title of that work is 
‘The Origin of the Chinese.” It was published at Hong Kong in 
1866, and to it I am indebted for much that is given in these 
notes. I mention these particulars so that those interested in the 
subject may know where to find the work alluded to. Another 
remark has been made about Chin-tan, or “the dawn,” and 
different opinions have been expressed by different speakers as 
to whether the word means dawn. It is the common means of 
expressing Japan rather poetically as ‘the Land of the Rising- 
Sun”; so it may have been with China, and there is no reason 
why it should not. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
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