摘要
It was already eleven years since Dr. V. K. Ting, formerly director of the Geological Survey of China, passed away after an accidental poisoning by coal gas in Hunan. Dr. Ting was one of the founders of Chinese geology. He had done extensive field observations on geology especially in the southwestern provinces besides his administrative works in the Geological Survey, in the Peipiao Coal
Mining Company, in the Academia Sinica, etc.