'There is already. in existence a Geological Society with headquarters this elty:—there is the Science Society of China, which this year Peking: there is, an 'Anthropological and an. Anatoniical Society, and there is an Institute of Mining' and Metallurgy and there are other societies devoted to speci fields of natural science. Then there the active geological departments of eolog:
ing in the great institutions of earning in this city, such as the 'Natidnal Uni 'Yenching' University, the Normal] University, and the dey Inboratories of speci research in this Tu addition to this there is the Laboratory of Vertebrate Palaconology organized by the Third Asiatic Expedition and the young and recently organized Peking Laboratory of Natural History, the outgrowth of the marine biological Inboratory opened this summer at) Peitaiho, This laboratory was founded and is at present wholly supported by the generosity of Mr. Sohtsu G, King of this city, and in one of the departments, by Mr. Kungpah Kiny Tty avowed object ie study of the fauna of China by Mr. Sohtsu G. King and others, on fresh water invertebrates by Mr. N. Gist Gee, on Chinese fish by Mr. Ping, and. the birds of China by Dr. Wilder. The coloured illustrations for the graphs on the birds will be made by and under the direction of the well-known Peking artist, Mr. Kungpah King.
Tt is not the intention that this society shall in any way replace duplicate the work done and planned by the organizations mentioned, or: others it in China. Te is tol provide an opportunity for the members of these organizations to meet together on a common grown to ce-operate with them where can and to spread an interest. in, and a love for, this work as widely, fas it may, not only in Peking but throughout the length and breadth of China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.