CONTENTS 



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Chapter I. — Inception, Aim, and Outfitting of the Expedition . . . . i 



,, II. — Narrative of March to the Yellow River . . . . . . 6 



,, III. — Passage of THE Yellow River — ^March to Yu-lin Fu . . .. i6 



IV. — March to Yen -an Fu — ^Winter Quarters . . . . . . 24 



V. — Clark and Sowerby's Narrative of Journey to Hsi-an Fu . . 34 



„ VI. — Description of Hsi-an Fu — Clark and Sowerby's Journey to 



Lan-chou Fu . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 



„ VII. — March of Douglas and Grant to Lan-chou — Description of 



Lan-chou Fu . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 



,, VIII. — ^Murder of Hazrat Ali . . . . . . . . . . 63 



,, IX. — Return March of Grant and Sowerby from Lan-chou to 



T'ai-yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 



„ X. — Biological Work — by A. de C. Sowerby . . . . . . 79 



XI. — Birds of North China — by A. de C. Sowerby . . . . 96 



„ XII. — Reptiles, Batrachians and Fishes — by A. de C. Sowerby . . 109 



„ XIII. — Geological Notes — by A. de C. Sowerby .. ,, .. 115 



„ XIV. — Survey Work of the Expedition — by R. S. Clark . . . . 130 



,, XV. — Meteorological Report — by A. de C. Sowerby . . . . 135 



Appendix I. (a). — Itineraries .. .. .. .. .. .. 155 



„ I. (b). — Table of Latitudes and Longitudes .. .. .. 170 



II. — ^Mammals Collected in Shansi, Shensi and Kansu — by A. de 



C. Sowerby . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 



III. — Invertebrates Collected on the Expedition — by A. de C. 



Sowerby . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 



„ IV. — Description of three New Species of Siphonaptera, — by the 



Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, M.A., F.L.S. . . , . 194 



V. — Araneidae of the Clark Expedition to Northern China — 



(Diagrams p. 218) — by H. R. Hogg, M.A., F.Z.S. . . 204 



, VI. — Diary of Meteorological Observations . . . . . . 219 



