A biological exploration of the wild life in the Yangtze Delta formed the topic for an interesting and highly informative lecture given by Mr. Arthur de €, Sowerby before the meeting of the China Society of Arts and Sciences yesterday in the R. A. 8, hall.
Mr. Sowerby, whose claim to a complete understanding of this sub-Jeet is based upon zoological and botanical exploration in practically every province of China, explained that no definite intensive biological survey of this province has hitherto been made, Should this be done, there would be found many new kinds of animals and plants. His own work has Included, however, nine excursions in the " past 12 months, from the mouth of the Huangpu as far south as Kangpu near Hangchow, at the mouth of the Chientang River. Previous work had been carried out in the Soochow district along the edges of the Tai Hu Lake and in the Chinkiang and Nanking areas, as far as the Woha tive of numerous mens, mainly of reptiles, amphibians, fishes and the lower forms of ani= mal life
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