Collection CHE - Feng-Hwai Chen reprints

1 folder containing 5 reprints

The reprints are duplicates and therefore to be withdrawn from the collection; however, as at least one of the reprints may have Chen's signature, and because there are so few traces of the Chinese scholars who studied at RBGE, an exception was made in order to create a tangible link to Chen in the RBGE Archives.

RBGE Library transfer

Five duplicate reprints from the RBGE Library reprint collection (the reprints were to be withdrawn from the collection as the articles are in published journals in the Library Collection; however, as there are so few traces of the Chinese botanists who travelled to Edinburgh in the 1930s/40s to study, a decision was made to retain these as a way of preserving the memory of Feng-Hwai Chen at RBGE; it appears at least one may have his handwriting on a dedication to WW Smith.

• ‘A preliminary study on the vegetation of the Ching-Po-Hu lake and its vicinity, in the Northeastern part of Kirin Province, Manchuria’ F-H Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, January 1 1934; annotated to Dr. R.E. Cooper (in REC’s handwriting?)
• ‘A preliminary study of the Compositae in Hopei Province’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, May 1 1934
• ‘Enumeration of Primula collected by Mr T.T. Yu from Northwestern Yunnan, F.H. Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, March 1939; annotated ‘To Prof. W.W. Smith with the author’s compliments Fenghwai Chen, May 30/40’
• ‘A study of Primula seeds with reference to the criteria of sections’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, July 1940
• ‘An Enumeration of Aconitum collected by T.T. Yu from N.W. Yunnan’, Feng-Hwai Chen & Ying Liu, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, June 1941; annotated with ‘To Mr W.E. Evans’

The reprints are duplicates; the articles can be found in the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology journals in the Library collection; they have been archived as a tangible connection to Chen, who visited RBGE to work with Primulaceae between 1934 and 1936. At least one journal may have his signature. It may be that there are better, more immediate ways of demonstrating the link, in which case some or possibly all of these reprints may be withdrawn in the future.

Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/

Articles may be copied for personal research.

• English
• Chinese

Good; some signs of wear and tear.