A paper of more than usual interest was read yesterday afternoon before the Royal Asiatic Society by Mr. A. de Carle Sowerby on "Recent research upon the Mammalia of North China,"
Dr. A. Stanley was in the chair and there was a good attendance.
After referring briefly to the work done in the latter part of last century by Pare Armand David, Swinhoe, Milne-Edwards, Heude, Styan, Rickett and La Touche, with others in the various museums of the world, the speaker dealt with the expedition by himself and Mr. Malcolm Anderson early in 1908, and the subsequent investigations carried out by the Clark Expedition and himself. For the purpose of defining the faunistic areas the lecturer, whose remarks wore illustrated by an excellent series of lantern ides, took a line roughly following the north from central China.
North of the line they had the pslearctic fauna and, south of it, the sub-tropical. Naturally along the boundary they found the two classes over-lapping.
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