LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PAGB. 



Plate i. Geologic Map of Parts of CM-li and Shan-si, after F. von Richthofen, Bailey Willis, 



and Eliot Blackwelder i 



Plates 2 and za. Geologic Route Map, Shen-si and Ssi'-chuan, after Bailey Willis and Eliot Black- 

 welder i 



Plate 3. Southern Asia during the Proterozoic Era 35 



4. Southern Asia during the Sinian Period 53 



5. Southern Asia during the Middle Paleozoic 71 



6. Southern Asia during the Carboniferous Period 77 



7. Hypsometric Map of China and Adjacent Regions, showing the'.Effects of Tertiary and 



Quaternary Diastrophism without regard to Results of Erosion 115 



8. Continental Structure of Asia 123 



ERRATA. 



Page 17, line 5, read 1903-04 for 1904-05. 

 Page 49, line 24, read later for late. 



