Peking, July 16.
The Library and the Museum of the Geological Survey of China, which is located at No. 3 Feng Sheng Hutung, Peking West, will be open for public exhibition from July 19 to July 25, from 9 a.m. noon. Admission will be free and al. interested are cordially invited.
Correspondents were shown over the premises yesterday, and the Survey will be officially opened by President Li on the 17th instant at 4 pam.
The beginnings of a Chinese national geological survey date _bacl to the revolution, when Mr, H, C. Chang, now Acting Director of the Survey, was appointed by the Provisional Government at Nanking to be chief of the section of geology in the Department of Mines under the Board of Commerce and Industry. In the following year Mr. Chang published the programme for a systematic geological survey of the country in the proceedings of the Geographical So: ciety of China. After the retirement of Dr. Sun Yat-sen the section of geology and the Bureau of Mines came under the leadership of Dr. V. K. Ting who is still a Chief Director of the Survey.
The teachers of the Geological School are mostly officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, who volunteered to carry on this teaching for three years without additional salaries. Dr. J. G. Anderson, who in 1914 was engaged by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce as Mining Adviser, has from the very outset worked in close ce-operation with the Survey and has from the beginning of the museum acted as its curator. In 1920, Dr..A. W. Grabau, formerly professor of palaeontology at Co-Iumbia University, New York, was engaged as palaeontologist of the Survey, and he has made considerable progress in describing the early marine fauna, the knowledge of which is of paramount importance for interpretation of the coal deposits of China, as well as for unravelling the complicated struc ture of the country.
The Staff of the Survey consists of three Directors, 16 field geology ists, one assistant in palaeontology, one assistant keeper of the museum, two librarians. three artiste, one
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