Palaeontology of Southern China. 



By 



H. Yabe and I. Hayasaka. 



Introduction and Summary. 



In the present paper are considered fossils from Southern China collected 

 by the geologists sent out by the Tokyo Geographical Society during the 

 five years, 1911-1915, and also those which have gradually accumulated in 

 my possession through the courtesy of many contributors during the past 

 fifteen years. The geologists who took part in the research work under- 

 taken by the Geographical Society were Messers S. Noda, Y. Ishii, S. 

 Yamane, N. Fukuchi, G. Kobayashi, and I. Sugimoto ; while the identifica- 

 tion and description of the fossils collected by them was deputed to me by 

 Mr. K. Inouye, Director of the Imperial Geological Survey and Secretary and 

 Councillor of the Tokyo Geographical Society. Among the fossils from 

 the other sources, there is one lot comprising a considerable number of well- 

 preserved specimens collected by Mr. K. Yamada, formerly Professor of the 

 Engineering College of the Imperial University of Kyoto, and the small but 

 very notable collection of Mr. S. Usui ; parts of these two collections were 

 taken with me some years ago to Europe, where they were worked out by 

 late Prof. Dr. F. Freeh of Breslau University, who is one of the most learned 

 in the geology and pakeontology of China. The geological and palreonto- 

 logical results obtained from this material were published by him in the fifth 

 volume of Ferdinand von Richthofen's monumental work " China." Further 

 the Mesozoic plant fossils in the collection of Prof. Yamada have already 

 been described by Prof M. Yokoyama in his " Mesozoic Plants of China. 

 While the fossils treated by Prof. Yokoyama are not included in the present 

 study, those described by Prof P>ech form a part of it. 



i) Journ. Coll. Sci., Imp. Univ. Tokyo, vol. XXI, art. 9, 1906. 



