Abstract
THE second volume of Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen's great work on China has just appeared. Five years have elapsed since the publication of the first volume, and two additional volumes are promised to complete the work, which when its maps and full index have been supplied, will be a great storehouse of observations in almost every department of Geology. Few geologists have enjoyed such opportunities of extended travel as have fallen to the Baron's lot. Already familiar with the rocks of a large part of Central Europe, he carried his knowledge and experience to the far west of North America, and did admirable service there as a pioneer to those who have Jcome after him. Subsequently he set himself to explore the geological structure of the Chinese Empire, and he is now laboriously collecting and arranging the vast materials which he amassed in his wanderings through the almost unknown geological formations of that wide region. China: Ergebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegrundeter Studien. Von F. Freiherrn von Richthofen. Zweiter Band. (Berlin: Reimer, 1882.)
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