Author: Willis, B. (ed.)
Title: Research in China. 1(1). Descriptive topography and geology; 1(2). Petrography and zoology; 2. Systematic geology.
Description: Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1907. In three parts. 4to (29.5 x 23.2 cm). 711 pp. [1(1): xiv, 353, xvi; 1(2): iv, 357-528, xvii-xxiv; 2: (iii), 133, v] with 63 plates in volume 1 (including full-colour maps, and including six chromolithographs of birds, and one of minerals); and in volume 2 nine (1-8, 2a) large to very large full-colour geological and topographical maps. Blind wrappers [vol. 1(1)], and original printed wrappers [vol. 1(2) and 2]. = Rare topographical, geological and faunal description of China after data obtained by the Carnegie Expedition to China, initiated by Charles Walcott. The (Recent) zoological part is restricted to vertebrates, mainly birds. It contains six fine, full colour plates and includes the description and illustration of a new subspecies of wren. Smaller sections are devoted to the herpetology, and the Mammalia. Collected beetles were mentioned but supposed to be described elsewhere. Two more parts on the Palaeozoic palaeontology and and atlas were published up to 1913, but are not included in this set. Wrappers partly loose, frayed at edges, front wrapper of volume two with a long, repaired tear, number in ink (congress library number?) on two titles, but no stamps or other library signs, and in all a very good set. Cat. BM(NH), p. 2329.

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