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GEOLOGY IN CHINA 
the mineral resources of the country, (2) to carry on a general 
geologic survey of the whole country upon a uniform scale, and 
(3) to undertake scientific geological research. 
In the first of these fields the Geological Survey of China can 
already point to a creditable series of achievements, such as the 
discovery and survey of a large number of iron-ore deposits, 
which will soon be described in a monographic report, and the 
examination of numerous coal-fields, as well as metalliferous de¬ 
posits. Among the latter are the antimony and mercury deposits, 
which have already been described in the Bulletins issued by the 
Survey. 
The general survey of the country has so far been restricted 
to the provinces of Chihli, Shantung, Shansi, Honan, and Kiangsu, 
the larger part of those provinces being already mapped. It is 
the intention of the Survey to publish sheet maps of the whole 
of China upon the scale 'of one to one million, and four such 
sheets are now in preparation. 
The scientific work of the Survey has been confined principally 
to the study and description of the fossil remains occurring in the 
various geological formations, and to the determination of stra¬ 
tigraphic horizons. The Survey has had the advantage of the 
cooperation of the well known paleontologist. Dr. A. W. Grabau, 
formerly professor in Columbia University, New York, who has 
already made great progress in describing the invertebrate fossils. 
A number of Swedish scientists, acting as associate paleontolo¬ 
gists to the Survey, have, with a Swedish fund, made extensive 
collections of fossil plants, fossil mammals and the remains of 
prehistoric man, and these are now being studied by them. The 
results of these studies, together with Dr. Grabau’s investigations 
on the invertebrate fossils, will be published in the Paleontologic 
Sinica, a series of monographs, which is intended to comprise, as 
far as possible, descriptions and illustrations of all the fossils of 
China. 
Early in the history of the Survey, the collections brought to¬ 
gether by the field geologists, were arranged to form a small 
museum. This has grown constantly, until now it comprises 
3,250 specimens of ores, minerals, rocks and fossils, properly 
labeled and exhibited under glass, in the compound of the Sur¬ 
vey, west city, Fong Shong Hutung, No. 3. 
