AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art. XVI.—Notice of an Account of Geological Observations in 
China, Japan and Mongolia; by RAPHAEL PUMPELLY. 
[Read before the National Academy of Sciences,’ Aug. 26th, 1865.] 
IN the present brief notice, I propose to call attention to some 
of the principal conclusions to which I have been led by geolog- 
ical observations made during journeys in China and Mongolia. 
In a longer memoir I hope to give in detail the grounds on which 
these conclusions are based. The range of travel was as follows : 
In the summer of 1863, from Shanghai to Hunan and the 
boundary between Hupeh and S2chuen. 
In the autumn and winter of 1863 and 1864 and during the 
following spring, from Peking through the mountains of western 
Chihli ; and from Peking to beyond the Great Wall of China 
and westward on the plateau, following its southern edge to 
ps hart 112th meridian, E. of Greenwich, returning bya route | 
