On being the first Western geologist in China : the work of Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923) / David Oldroyd, Jing-yi Yang.
Abstract:
'This paper offers a reconstruction of Pumpelly's journeys and seeks to understand what an explorer might do in a land where there had been no previous geological investigations by persons trained in the methods of Western science.'
Annals of science Vol. 53 (1996), p. 107-136