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TWO years ago some notes were published in NATURE. (vol. xxxvi. p. 163) on the geology of a portion of the coast of China, compiled from a report forwarded by Surgeon P. W. Bassett-Smith, R.N., of H.M.S. Rambler to the Hydrographical Department of the Admiralty. Since then Mr. Bassett-Smith has extended the area of his investigations both to the north and south of the coast-line dealt with in this report, so as to embrace the whole eastern coast from Shanghai and Hong Kong; and has embodied his observations in two further reports to the Hydrographical Department. These documents, with the specimens referred to in them, having been submitted by the Hydrographer to the Director-General of the Geological Survey, Dr. Hatch, of the Petrographical Department of the Survey, has drawn up the following abstract of the reports and notes regarding the specimens:— . © 1889 Nature Publishing Group
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