JOURNEYS THROUGH KOREA. 5 



19 00-' 02, by frequent departures by side-roacls from my route. 

 Moreover lie made a happy discovery of fossil-plants in the upper 

 course of the Nak-fong river, and after careful study he proved 

 them to be of the Jurassic species.^^ Later he made two other 

 contributions "^ to the palaeontology of the peninsula ; the one 

 refers to a Fusulina and two other Foraminifers, found near 

 Phijöng-j/ang, establishing the presence of the Anthracolithic 

 bed in the peninsula beyond all doubt ; the other has to do with 

 the Triassic Münggong series with the impressions of Gigantopteris. 

 Yabé's paper on the paleontology of Korea, the only work on 

 the subject, really forms a part of the present series, and a not 

 unimportant portion of it. 



During and after the late war, a number of specialists were 

 sent out to Manchuria and Korea to gather information on the 

 natural resources ^^ of the countries, and one party of geologists 

 went to the latter country to make a preliminary survey of the 

 geology and the mineral resources of the peninsula. 



Messrs. Fukuchi, Iki, Inouyè, Kanehaea, Matsuda, and Okada, 

 all graduates of our University, took part in the expedition, the 

 results of which have already appeared in a series of Avorks *^ with 

 geologic maps and illustrations. To each of the members of the 



1) ' Mesozoic Plnnts from Korea '. This Journal, Vol. XX, Art. 8, 1905. 



2) a. ' A Contribution to the Genus FusuKna, with Notes on u Fusnliu.i-Limestone from 

 Korea.' This Journal, Vol. XXI, Art. 5, 1905. 



h. ' On the Occmrence of the Genus Gigantopteris in Korea.' Vol. XXIII, Art. 9, 1908. 



3) On the mineral resources of the peninsula, we have a short note by Mr. K. Nishiwada : 

 'Useful Minerals of Korea'. The Korean Bepository, Seoul, Sept., 1897. 



4) a. Fukuchi, ' On the Coal-fields of Phyöng-yang, Sam-deung, and Sari-uön, Phyöng-an- 

 Do.' (in Japanese.) Department of War, Tokyo, 1905, pp. 21, with sketch maps. 



h. , ' The Gold field of Syun-an, Phyöng-an-Do.' (in Japanese.) Department of 



War, Tokyo, 1905, pp. 4, with sketch maj)s. 



c. Iki and Suzuki, ' Report on the Mineral Resources of IIoang-hai-Do, Kyöng-geui-Do, 

 South Chhyung-chhyöng-Do, and the Southern Part of South Phyong an-Do.' (in Japanese.) 

 Mining Bureau, Tokyo, 1900. 



