关键词: 王战, 胡先骕, 郑万钧, 干铎

Abstract

The actual name of the author of this article is Chan Wang, who wrote a draft of the article in June, 1984, using a pseudonym, and edited it later. The article, which was initially in a mimeographed manuscript and was not previously published, is now being published as a piece of posthumous work from him. The mimeographed manuscript with hand-written notes and corrections from Chan Wang is included in this article as a supplementary material. Based on the fact that Chan Wang was the collector and researcher of the first specimen of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, there is no doubt that he is the discoverer of the dawn redwood. Hsen-Hsu Hu and Wan-Chun Cheng are the ones who named and published the species. The discovery of the species had nothing to do with Tuo Kan.

Key words: Chan Wang, Hsen-Hsu Hu, Wan-Chun Cheng, Tuo Kan