Abstract
THE remarkable growth of geological knowledge concerning China commenced with the foundation of the National Geological Survey, under the able directorship of the late V. K. Ting, in 1915. Its unbroken series of publications appeared in 1920 and those of the Geological Society of China in 1922. The first volume of A. W. Grabau's "Stratigraphy of China" was issued in 1924, the second in 1928, but invaluable as this exhaustive compendium was for a time, it soon became out of date as new results were accumulated, mainly by Chinese geologists whom Ting and his associates had trained. As the years passed, contributions rapidly increased, for provincial surveys, universities and foreign authors of many nationalities added their quota to the literature.
The Geology of China
By Prof. J. S. Lee. Pp. xv + 528. (London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1939.) 30s. net.
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BROWN, J. The Geology of China. Nature 145, 169 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145169a0
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