Abstract
The House of the Distant View of the Dragon King Temple, on an island in the lake of the Summer Palace of Beijing, must have been a terrific place to plan a scientific programme. Here, in 1984, Chinese and British geologists met to plan details of collaboration of a project, under the auspices of the Royal Society and Academia Sinica. The idea had been proposed by Charles Holland: to take a single, narrow interval of the Early Palaeozoic (the Telychian) and compare the successions and fossils of that age in Britain and China as an exercise in precise stratigraphic correlation, with Chinese and UK stratigraphers working in close collaboration. This volume gives the results of what became the ‘Transhemisphere Telychian’ project. Did it succeed? One problem with multi-author volumes of this sort is that they become monsters to organize and complete, and it’s obvious that the contributions are of various vintages. Nevertheless, there’s a great deal of value here, and it …
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