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MR. SOHTSU G. KING, the Chinese conchologist and banker, has recently given his valuable collection on conchological literature to the Science Society of China Library, Shanghai. The collection was started some twenty years ago, while he was studying Chinese Mollusca with Prof. A. W. Grabau of the University of Peking. Under their joint authorship, a book entitled “Shells of Peitaiho” was published and is now in its second edition, besides many other scientific papers. The collection consists of many valuable and rare works and several complete sets of journals. It is no exaggeration to say that the collection is unique in the Far East and invaluable to students of zoology in general and conchology in particular. The Council of the Society has passed a resolution that a special room shall be used to house the collection and shall be labelled, “Sohtsu G. King Library of Conchology”. The books have already been arranged, and a complete catalogue is in preparation and will be printed and circulated to research institutions and learned societies interested. In addition to the collection, Mr. King has also given an endowment, the income of which is to be used to provide the collection with the necessary periodical literature.
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Library of Conchology. Nature 138, 110 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138110c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138110c0