Dr. 8. J. Schofield, professor of geology inthe University of Brit. ish Columbia, has just returned from China after spending eight months lucring a geological survey of the island of Hongkong. to determine whether or not coat exists there. Although it is too early to reach any definite conelusion, Dr. Schofield is enthusiastic as to its possibility. The survey will occupy another four years. Tt is expected that Dr, Williams, professor of palacontology, will go from here to Hongkong in the early autumn to undertake the study of fossils on the island,
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