PROCEEDINGS XI 



Opportunity having been given for remarks, the Reports 

 and Statement of Accounts were adopted on the proposal of 

 Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, seconded by Eev. F. L. Hawks 

 Pott, D.D. 



A vote of thanks to the Council and Officers for their 

 services during the past year was passed, on the motion of 

 Mr. K. D. Abraham, seconded by Rev. Ernest Box. 



The Honorary Editor's Report. 



The Editor of the Journal, Eev. Evan Morgan, speaking 

 of the forthcoming Journal which is Vol. LI, took the 

 opportunity to refer interestingly to preceding volumes issued 

 by the Society. He said : 



In issuing the 51st volume of the Society's proceedings 

 it is fitting to pay some sort of tribute to the preceding 

 50 volumes, which have steadily and unfailingly appeared, 

 showing a continuity of aim through continuous change of 

 minds and hands. A wealth of material has been produced 

 and recorded during these years, and it would be well for 

 students and general readers to look through these past 

 volumes not only as a stimulus to our present effort, but also 

 as a tribute to the memory of past workers of this Society. 



Further it would be a most interesting occupation to 

 review the past volumes at length and refresh our minds with 

 the wide range of the Society's studies and the varied nature 

 of the articles. Time will only permit of a brief mention of 

 the first and fiftieth volumes. 



No. 1 was first issued in June, 1858, just 62 years ago, so 

 that really the 50th volume was not its semi-centennial one. 

 This was reprinted in 1886 by Noronha and Sons. Its name 

 was Journal of the Sha?ighai Literary and Scientific Society. 

 But before No. 2 was issued, the Society had become con- 

 nected by affiliation with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. It is under that honourable name that 

 the Journal has appeared ever since. 



The object of the Editorial Committee as expressed in 

 their preface, was a worthy one. "By combined effort," 

 they say, "such an inroad may thus be made upon the field 

 of research and observation which lies before us, as shall 

 enable us to present a very acceptable contribution to 

 Western Sinology." This object has been and is being 

 worthily fulfilled as the pages of the Journal will testify. 

 Dr. Edkins must have been the first Secretary and the work 

 of his industrious pen is seen in the very first number, a 

 translation of a Buddhist Shastra. Mr. Wylie contributed an 

 article on the Ta Tsing Coins. Sixty-one years later we have 

 republican coins in Vol. 48. The blocks of the 1st copy 



