Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

“ The Council of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland takes this opportunity of informing the Members of the Society and the Public, that in selecting, from the communications read at the General Meetings, papers for publication in the Society's Transactions, it is guided by the importance or singularity of the subjects treated on, or by the advantageous manner of treating them ”

“ Paou-tseuen is the Mandchu pronunciation of the Chinese characters marked 16. No. 11 has Kwang in Mandchu and Chinese on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at the provincial Mint of Kwang tung.—No. 13 has Paou-u in Mandchu on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at Woo-chang foo in Hoo-pih.—No. 14 has Paou-yun in Mandchu on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at Yun-nan-foo.—No. 15 has Paou-kwang in Mandchu on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at Canton. ”