摘要
HU Hsen-Hsu(胡先骕,courtesy name步曾,Buzeng)was born in Xinjian,Jiangxi Province of China in 1894(Fig.1).He received a bachelor’s degree of biology from the University of California in 1916,and a doctorate of applied biology from Harvard University in 1925.From 1918 when he started teaching in college until his death in 1968,in a half-century career Hu made foundational contributions to modern botany in China.He is widely regarded as the founder of Chinese plant taxonomy.
