The Ming empire: patron of Islam in China and Southeast Asia
This is the Annual Report of the Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society for 1911, authored by R. Hanitsch (Acting Hon. Secretary) and Walter Makepeace (Honorary Treasurer), published in Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 61 (June 1912), pp. viii–x.
Summary
The report records a year of unusual activity, noting the publication of four numbers of the Journal (Nos. 57–60) and the long-delayed new edition of the Map of the Malay Peninsula, which cost a total of $5,457.71 to produce and of which 358 copies were sold by year’s end (p. viii). Nineteen new members were elected, and the Society recorded the deaths of Hon. W. D. Barnes and Mr. W. Nanson, the latter having been a member since 1889 (p. ix).
The report also notes the resignation of Mr. H. N. Ridley, C.M.G., F.R.S., as Secretary in October 1911 in view of his approaching retirement; Ridley had served as Secretary for most of the Society’s existence and is described as “the very soul of the Society” (p. ix). The Honorary Treasurer’s account, audited by Walter Makepeace on 24 January 1912, details receipts of $2,743.26 and payments of $3,738.74 for the year, with the balance carried forward across fixed and current deposits at the Mercantile and Chartered Banks (p. x).