Attached is an electronic version of the FOREWORD written by Professor Dr. Hsen-Hsu Hu (Hu Xian–Su, 1894-1968) on Dec 25th 1941, which is also put below this email message (see Appendix I).
I believe that this FOREWORD can be employed to encourage all the scientific elite to work hard and meet adversity gracefully so as to build a splendid but admirable career.
Absolutely, Professor H. H. Hu was a distinguished plant taxonomist in the world in the 20th century. He made untiring efforts to conduct lots of seminal studies for Chinese plant taxonomy. We should be proud of Professor Hu, not only because he was a talent individual of science and literature but also because he was adamant in his candid attitude to science and society and in his intrepidity to Japanese enemies.
Funded by the Shang Chih Society and the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture, Fan Memorial Institute of Biology was founded in Beijing in 1928. An English academic journal of the Institute, i.e. Bulletin of Fan Memorial Institute of Biology appeared in Beijing on May 20th 1929.The Bulletin was forced to stop in 1942 largely because of Sino-Japanese War. The first issue of new series of the Bulletin with Professor Hu’s FOREWORD included, was published in Taihe, Jiangxi Province on July 1st 1943. For more details, please see Appendix II below this message.
Hoping that your research is going ahead okay in the future.