CHINESE MEDICINES: 
CIRCULAR No. 291, SECOND SERIES. 
INSPECTORATE GENERAL OF Customs, 
PEKine, 6th October 1884. 
SIR, 
It is becoming desirable to provide a complete List of the things that 
the Customs pass as Medicines (8 #), and I have now to instruct you to note the 
name of everything thus passed inwards or outwards from the 1st November 1884 
to the 31st October 1885, with quantity, value, and place of production. The things 
thus noted are to be entered under one or other of the following eight classes or 
categories, viz. :一 
BEAQGS jy bo tye bg os eee Seeds and Fruits . . 子 果 
Barks and Husks . . jess rane “4g Lorctheaaee 
Twigs and Leaves . . ii # domeeie sO) ba ie 
Hi Tommere: xc).cr a ee ge Sundries HE Te 
At the expiration of twelve months, in November 1885, you are to send to the 
Statistical Secretary a copy of your Class Lists, with the names in Chinese characters 
and also transliterated according to Wanr’s system and arranged in alphabetical 
order in each class. These Port Lists will then be published as they stand, and 
from them, to be compiled by the Statistical Secretary and to be published in the 
same volume, will be provided a complete alphabetical and Chinese List, 
In this connexion, and for your guidance and information, I enclose copy of 
a despatch received from Ichang, No. 20 of 1884, accompanied by a Class List 
drawn up there. 
TI am, 
Str, 
Your obedient Servant, 
ROBERT HART, 
Inspector General. 
To 
THE Commissioners oF Customs. 
