水杉的未尽事宜

主要阐述与水杉有关的三个问题: 首先是水杉研究的教训, 特别是从编辑、作者和学者的角度; 其次讨论水杉研究的不明之处, 包括王战的标本是如何到达吴仲伦之手而转送给郑万钧的, 薛纪如和华敬灿谁先打听到小河的原产地, 三木茂的论文是如何到达中国而胡先骕又是如何得到的; 并讨论了水杉的栽培及栽培品种的注册以及水杉原产地的资源保护、旅游开发及宣传; 最后建议成立水杉博物馆, 编写中国植物采集史, 编写东亚植物分类学文献目录新续编。

Further Studies on the Natural History of Metasequoia

The lessons from the research work on the natural history, unfinished story of the discovery, and existed questions on protection of native tree of Metasequoia glyptostroboides are reviewed and discussed; and relative proposals on botanical history of China, including Metasequoia Museum, Collection History on the Chinese plants, and The East Asiatic Bibliography of Plant Taxonony and Systematics , are also presented.