OLDEST EECOBDS OF SEA-ROUTE TO CHINA FEOM WESTERN ASIA. 347 



1865. 



(250) Whitaker, W. On the Chalk of Buckinghamshire, and on 

 the Totternhoe Stone. Quart. Journ. Oeol. Soc. vol. xxi. p. ol>8. 



(251) Part of the South-eastern Sheet of the ' Greenough Map ' of 

 the Geological Society. 



1866. 



(252) Saemann, — . (Notes on Section at Hartwell) in ' Monographic 

 paleontologique et geologique de I'etage portlandien des Environs de 

 Boulogne-sur-Mer,' "by E. de Loriol and P. Pellat. Mem. Soc. Phjs. 

 Hist. Nat. Geneve. 



1867. 



(253) Green, A. H. The Valley of the Oase at Buckingham. Geol. 

 Mag. vol. iv. p. 563. 



(254) Morris, Prof. J. On the Ferruginous Sands of Buckingham, 

 shire, with Remarks on the Distribution of the Equivalent Strata. Ibid. 

 p. 456. 



(255) Wood, S. Y. jun. On the Structure of the Postglacial 

 Deposits of the South-East of Eugland. Quart. Journ. Oeol. Soc. vol. 

 xxiii. p. 394. 



1868. 



(256) Green, A. H. The Ouse Valley. Geol. Mag. vol. v. p. 104. 



(257) Wood, S. V. jun. Reply to ... . Mr. A. H. Green, on the 

 Ouse Valley at Buckingham. Ibid. p. 42. 



1870.' 



(258) Phillips, Prof. J. A Monograph of British Belemnitidae. 

 Part V. [Oxford Clay and Kimeridge Clay.] (Bucks, PL 36). FaJoionto. 

 graph. Soc. 



1871. 



(259) Anon. Excursion to Aylesbury. Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. ii-No. 1, 

 p. 3(5. 



? date. 



(260) Pennant. Journey from Chester. [Fuller's -earth Pits 

 (Wavendon) noticed.] 



Note. — The lists of books, papers, Sec., are not carried beyond 1S7;> ; works of 

 later date being noticed in the volumes of the GeolPf/u-al Record. 



Notes on the oldest Records of the Sea-Route to China from, Western 

 Asia. By Colonel H. Yule, (7.5., R.E, 



[A communication ordered by the General Committee to be printed in extcnso 



among the Reports.] 



The purpose of this paper is to review, as concisely as may be prac- 

 ticable, the geography of the most ancient sea-trade -with China, and to 

 set forth tlie persistence of the maritime tradition of the route to that 

 country during the first nine or ten centuries of the Christian era. In 



