The first and second reports of the Medical Missionary Society in China : with minutes of proceedings, hospital reports, &c.

  • Medical Missionary Society in China
Date:
1841
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Credit: The first and second reports of the Medical Missionary Society in China : with minutes of proceedings, hospital reports, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    311 N U T E S oj the Scamd A7mucil Meeting of the MEDICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY i N CHINA. The Second Annual Meeting of the members and friends of the So- ciety was held at the residence of A. Anderson, esq, at Macao, on Thursday, the 1st July, 1841. At 2 p. m., the Rev. E. C. Bridgman, vice-president, took the chair. There were present, the Rev. Me^rs. Bridgman, Boone, Ball, and Roberts, and A. Anderson, W. Bell, W. Leslie,.W. Blenkin, P. Young, J. Holliday, B. Hobson, W. Lock- hart, S. W. Williams, John Slade, J. R. Morrison, esquires. Mr. Bridgman opened the meeting, by observing, that the friends of the Society had now been called together with the view of inform- ing the public of th^^ proceedings o,f the Society, and of affording to the rhernbers'an opportunity of electing ne\y office-bearers. The report of the committee; was then read, detailing the proceed- ing of the Society’s agents since the last general meeting, on the 20th November, 1838; the continuance of Dr. Parker at Canton , . ' . .1 . i, until the close of June, 1840, when he proceeded on a long purposed visit to the United States; the consecutive arriyals of Mr. liockh.art and Mr. Hobsori fron\ England, and of Mr. Diver from the United States ; and the return of the latter gentleman to America, owing to. continued ill health.—The treasurer’s account shpwed a balance in the hands of the treasurer, on the 30th of June, of loOl dollars, car- ried to the credit of thp Society,—after an e.xpendifure, since the 30th of November, 1838, of little more than 1700 dollars. ■ I . . - ■ .
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