AbstractThis article overviews the history of discovering, naming and publishing the living-fossil species Metasequoia glyptostroboides, and summarizes the key points of the two pieces of the posthumous work by Chan Wang and Chi-Ju Hsueh published in this issue. The species was discovered in 1943, rather than 1941 as reported in some literature. Wang collected the specimens of the tree on July 21, 1943, and considered it as a new species but could not determine its taxonomic affiliation. Wang was the first collecting and studying the specimens of the species. Wang had one of the specimens of the species passed to Wan-Chun Cheng in 1944 for further identification. Wan-Chun Cheng sent his graduate student, Chi-Ju Hsueh, to collect additional specimens in 1946. Hsen-Hsu Hu and Wan-Chun Cheng published Metasequoia glyptostroboides on May 15, 1948.