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PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE

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ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE

THE CHINESE

VOL. I.

COMMITTEE.

Chairman-The Right Hon. LORD BROUGHAM, F.R.S., Momb. Nat Inst. of France.

Vice Chairman-JOHN WOOD, Esq.

Treasurer-WILLIAM TOOKE, Esq., F.R.S.

W. Allen, Esq., F.R. & R.A.S.
Capt. Beaufort, R.N., F.R. &
R.A.S., Hydrographer to the
Admiralty.
Francis Boott, M.D.
G. Burrows, M.D.
Peter Stafford Carey, Esq.A.M.
William Coulson, Esq.
R. D. Craig, Esq.

J. F. Davis, Esq., F.R.S.
H. T. De la Beche, Esq., F.R.S.
The Right Hon. Lord Denman.
Samuel Duckworth, Esq., M.P.
B. F. Duppa, Esq.

The Right Rev. the Bishop of
Durham, D.D.

Sir Henry Ellis, Prin. Lib. Brit. Mus.

T. F.Ellis, Esq., A.M., F.R.A.S. John Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. George Evans, Esq., M.P. Thomas Falconer, Esq.

I. L. Goldsmid, Esq., F.R. and R.A.S.

Francis Henry Goldsmid, Esq. B. Gompertz, Esq., F.R. and R.A.S.

G. B. Greenough, Esq., F.R. and L.S.

M. D. Hill, Esq.
Rowland Hill, Esq., F.R.A.S.
Right Hon. Sir J. C. Hobhouse,
Bart., M.P.

David Jardine, Esq., A.M.

Henry B. Ker, Esq.

Thomas Hewitt Key, Esq., A.M.
George C. Lewis, Esq., A.M.
Thomas Henry Lister, Esq.
James Loch, Esq., M.P.,
F.G.S.

George Long, Esq., A.M.
H. Malden, Esq., A.M.
A. T. Malkin, Esq., A.M.
James Manning, Esq.

R. I. Murchison, Esq., F.R.S.,
F.G.S.

The Right Hon. Lord Nugent.
Wm. Smith O'Brien, Esq.,
M.P.

The Right Hon. Sir Henry
Parnell, Bt., M.P.
Richard Quain, Esq.

Dr. Roget, Sec. R.S., F.R.A.S.
Edward Romilly, Esq., A.M.
The Right Hon. Lord John
Russell, M.P.

Sir M. A. Shee, P.R.A., F.R.S.
John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
The Right Hon. Earl Spencer.
John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S.
Dr. A. T. Thomson, F.L.S.
Thomas Vardon, Esq.
H. Waymouth, Esq.

J. Whishaw, Esq., A.M., F.R.S.
The Hon. John Wrottesley,
A.M., F.R.A.S.
Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P.
J. A. Yates, Esq., M.P.

THOMAS COATES, Esq., Secretary, No. 59, Lincoln's Inn Fields

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