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THE CHINA MEDICAL BOARD 321^ lie ^eac^ omce ^ the Board is at 62 BroadHead Offkeway, New York City, where are located alsothe offices of the Kockefeller Foundation itself and of theGeneral Education Board.. ItDwas decided that the Resident DirectorChina m China should have his headquarters atPeking, and accordingly in August 1915, Mr.Greene returned to China and opened a permanent office ofthe Board at No. 2 San Tiao Hutung, Peking.r In September of last year the Board sentv,Commission to China three of its members, Dr. Buttrick,Dr Welch and Dr. Flexner, with Dr. F. L.Gates, to investigate further the specific enterprises recommended by the former commission, and to familiarizethemselves on the field with the general features of thesituation. This party visited Moukden, Tientsin, Peking,Tsinanfu, Hankow, Changsha, Nanking, Shanghai, Hangchow,Soochow, Hongkong and Canton, making a specialstudy of the medical educational work at those places andconferring w r ith most of the leaders in this work throughoutthe country.^e &r^Peking Medical important work to be undertakenCollege by the Board was the strengthening of theUnion Medical College at Peking. As a resultof discussions with the missionary societies interested, theBoard decided to co-operate with those societies in organizingin the United States a board of trustees to carry on thework of the college. In view of the fact that all the landand buildings and most of the equipment used by the collegebelonged to a single mission board, the London MissionarySociety, it was agreed that the China Medical Board shouldcompensate the Society for its investment in the college.The London Missionary Society also consented to place atthe disposition of the Board for the Union Medical Collegeother property which it possessed in the same neighbourhood,and which it has used hitherto for other purposes.The Board of Trustees of the Collegeconsists of oneTrusteesrepresentative of each of themissionary societies interested, namely, theLondon Missionary Society, the Society for the PropagationA 40