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16 Jan 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

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Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2011-12-31 21:12
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Barbara Anslow's diary
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Fri, 16 Jan 1942

No bread supplied today, but Tony had some and shared it. Lecture about Stars tonight on roof, by Mr Evans. ((B.D. Evans, Director of Royal Observatory))

Bought plate and cup and writing pad, then will be broke. ((Chinese messenger in hotel must have shopped for me.))

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Submitted by cmshun on Sun, 2012-12-02 23:12.

Barbara's diary wrote: "One evening, a Mr. Evans from the Royal Observatory gave us a lecture on the stars, on the roof."  

My heartfelt appreciation for Barbara to show me her diary about Mr. B.D. Evans, my highly respectable predecessor.

Mr Evans is also well-known for utilizing the back of carefully flattened cigarette packets to record in pencil weather conditions at the Stanley internment camp during 1942-1945 (http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/HKG/B35831637.pdf).

CM Shun, Director of the Hong Kong Observatory