摘要:The Special Meeting is called for announcing the result of the recent excavation of the Chou Kou Tien cave, Dr. W. H. Wong director of the National Geological Survey presiding. Dr. Wong in opening the meeting, first referred to the irreparable loss to geological science is the death of Mr.

摘要:INTRODUCTION The main fossiliferous deposit at Chou Kou Tien has been known in the geological literature since its discovery in 1921 (v. et. 2,3 and 19) but its full scientific significance was not realized until the year 1926 when announcement was made of the finding of two hominid teeth among the material

摘要:In continuance of the work done on that site during the preceeding two years, I went into the field in May 1929 and began further excavation of the cave deposit at Chou Kou Tien. I planned to concentrate my field work

摘要:On the second of December 1929 Mr. W. C. Pei of the staff of the Cenozoic Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China, while excavating a sheltered recess of the main deposit (Locality 1) at Chou Kou Tien, discevered the greater part of a uncrushed adult skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis. Mr. Pei

摘要:The present specimen was loaned to me for investigation by my friend, Dr. W. H. Wong, Director of the Geological Survey of China. It was collected from Fan Chuang (范莊) of Si Chuan Hsien (淅川縣), Honan Province by Mr. C. Li (李捷), who conducted a geological surveying trip in

摘要:The death of Mr Y T. Chao at the hands of bandits in Yunnan is a tragedy, the magnitude of which few can realize, and a loss to China which is absolutely irreparable. Modern science in China is so young and able men of science are so few, that the ruthless cutting off, at the very threshold of his