VOL. XLIX— 1918 



Edited by Evan Morgan 



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. By Lewis Hodous, d.d. .. 

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

 H. L. Harding 



III.— Notes on the Tu T'ien Hui f & ^ & . By H. A. Ottewill 86 



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VI. — 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 



Review of Recent Books : — 



The I-li or Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial — The Beginnings 

 of Porcelain in China — Asbestos and Salamander — The Reindeer 

 and its Domestication — Supplemental Notes on Walrus and 

 Narwhal Ivory — A Preliminary List of the Plants of Kiangsu 

 Province — Harvard Medical School of China Reports, 1911-1916 

 — Further Notes on the Birds of the Province of Fukien in 

 South East China — A Key to the Birds of the Lower Yangtze 

 Valley — Kiao Ou Ki Lio — Recherches sur les Superstitions en 

 Chine — The Development of China — The History of the Early 

 Relations between the United States and China — Outlines of 

 Chinese History — Li Hung Chang — En Butinant : Scenes et 

 Croquis de Mongolie — Hand-book of New Terms and News- 

 paper Chinese — Who's Who of the Chinese in New York — A 

 Sportsman's Miscellany — ft| ($j ^ ^ j|$ &L — Chinese Names of 

 Plants — Beans and Bean Products — Household Industries in 

 Soochow — Some Industries of Soochow — The Educational Direc- 

 tory and Year Book of China — Forests and Chihli Floods — 

 Yearbook of the Netherlands East Indies, 1916 — The Encyclo- 

 paedia Sinica — Gems of Chinese Verse — The Fight for the 

 Republic in China 160 



Notes and Queries 200 



Additions to the Library 208 



List of Members 211 



