CONTENTS, 



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



II. — Narrative OF March TO THE Yellow River .. 



,, III. — Passage of the Yellow River — March to Yu-lin Fu. . 



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



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



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

 Lan-chou Fu . . 



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

 Lan-chou Fu . . 



,, VIII. — Murder of Hazrat Ali 



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

 T'ai-yuan 



,, X. — Biological Work^by A. de C. Sowerby . . . . 



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



,, XII. — Reptiles, Bairachians and Fishes — by A. de C. Sowerby 



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



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



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



Appendix I. (a). — Itineraries 



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



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

 C. Sowerby 



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

 Sowerby 



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

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



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

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



, VJ. — Dlary of Meteorological Observations 



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