YANGTSE RIVER.

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Ninth Annual Report of the Survey Office, 1930. First edition, first printing, of this report published in the wake of the devastating 1931 Yangtse floods. In 1930, the Yangtse River Commission focused on hydrological engineering and regulating the channel, with surveys conducted at ten of the river's eleven bars. We have traced a single institutional copy of this detailed report held by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Natural Science Library.In keeping with the commission's Chinese and expatriate membership, the same information is presented in both English and Chinese. This copy is bound without pages 39-44 of the Chinese-language portion, with the corresponding data and text appearing on pages 26-31 of the English section. The bilingual plates employ both English and Chinese.While the English title page dates the report to 1931, this is more accurately a reference to when the text and data were compiled.

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