摘要:INTRODUCTION The western Islands (Hsisatao) or the Paracel Reefs form the south-ern-most Chinese territory in the China sea. They are situated between latitudes 15°30′ N., and 17°30′ N. and longitudes E 111-113°. Accordingly

摘要:INTRODUCTION L'execution des travaux necessites par l'etablissement des cartes au 1/100,000, que nous dressons le long des lignes des chemins de fer chinois, nous a amene a placer certains sites en nous servant de leurs coordonnees geo-

摘要:In 1918, at the meeting of the Palaeontological Society of America, I first advanced the proposition that the shell of the Holochoanites (Proterocameroceras, Cameroceras, Endoceras, Vaginoceras etc) was not the homologue of the shell of the Orthochoanites (Orthoceras etc) but that it was only the so-

摘要:I. CHARACTER OF THE DEPOSITS AND THE METHOD OF PRESERVATION OF THE BONES. In May 1929 Dr. V. K. Ting presented me a number of bone deposits which he collected from Wu-chow, Kwangsi during his recent geological trip in summer 1928. "The deposits look like a kind ot breccia con-

摘要:The thick and widely exposed Jurassic and Triassic beds of Western Shansi and Northern Shensi are extraordinarily barren of animal fossils. With the exception of the ganoid fishes found by C. C. Wang, Licent and Teilhard in the special horizon (jasper-bearing limestone) which underlies the

摘要:After a period of four months' field work in South Shensi and North Szechuan, Mr. T. K. Huang and I at last arrived, at the end of June, Chengtu where we decided to pass our summer vacation. Shortly after the arrival, Mr. Huang, for some personal affairs, went home in his native

摘要:I approach the subject of this address with a good deal of diffidence. For during the last years I have not done any geological work and am therefore not only unfamiliar with geological literature in general, but even out of touch with the work done by my old colleagues in the Survey. Then