SCIENCE IN WESTERN SZECHUAN

Abstract

I. PHYSICO-CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY IN the foregoing articles of this series* the attempt has been made to report to Western scientific men something of the remarkable efforts of their Chinese colleagues in a pre-industrial hinterland lacking all modern resources. The attempt is here continued with respect to the western parts of the province of Szechuan, lying between the Tibetan borderlands to the east and the Yangtze valley in Hubeh to the west.