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?Ui JOURNAL OF THE 





NORTH- CHINA BRANCH 





OF THE 



BOYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 



VOLUME XLIX— 1918 



CONTENTS. 



PROCEEDINGS 



RIVER PROBLEMS IN CHINA. By Herbert Chatley, D. Sc. ... 



SOME NOTES ON LAND-BIRDS. By H. E. Laver 



ANIMISTIC ELEMENTS IN MOSLEM PRAYER. By Samuel 



M. Zwemer, F.R.G.S 



THE EIGHT IMMORTALS OF THE TAOIST RELIGION. By 



Peter C. Ling 



A CHAPTER ON FOLKLORE: 



I.— The Kite Festival in Foochow, China. By Lewis Hodous, 



D.D 



II.— On a Method of Divination Practised at Foochow. By 



H. L. Harding 



HI— Notes on the Tu T'ien Hui (fP ^ #) held at Chinkiang 



on the 31st May, 1917. By H. A. Ottewill 



IV. — The Domestic Altar. By James Hutson 



KU K'AI-CHIH'S SCROLL IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. By 



J. C. Ferguson, Ph.D 



THE THEISTIC IMPORT OF THE SUNG PHILOSOPHY. By 



J. P. Bruce, M.A 



A CASE OF RITUALISM. By Evan Morgan 



CHINESE PUZZLEDOM. By Charles Kliene, F.R.G.S. ... 



REVIEWS OF RECENT BOOKS 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY 



LIST OF MEMBERS 



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