Through the kindness of my friend Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., of the Geological Survey Museum, Jermyn Street, I was placed, in October, 1902, in correspondence with the Rev. Samuel Couling, M.A., of the English Baptist Mission, Ching-chou-fu, Kiao-chow, North China, who obligingly transmitted to me several fossils which he had obtained from “West Shantung, and south of Tsing-tshou-fu, 36° 40′ N. lat. and 118° 40′ E. long.” He referred me to Richthofen's Atlas, on which the hills where the fossils had been obtained are marked “Mittel und Ober Sinisch”—between Cambrian and Silurian in age.