胡先驌教授是我国杰出的植物分类学家,中国近代植物分类学奠基人之一,1894年斗月20日生于江西省新建县治平洲,1968年7月16日逝世。他幼年时代就勤奋好学,1912年经留学考试去美国学习农学和植物学,1925年再次赴美深造,在哈佛大学攻读植物分类学,获博士学位。 Prof. Hu Xiangyan is one of China’s outstanding plant taxonomists and one of the founders of Chinese modern plant taxonomy. He was born on 20th in Zhixingzhou, a newly established county in Jiangxi Province in 1894, and died on July 16, 1968. He was very diligent and studious when he was young. In 1912, he went to the United States to study agronomy and botany after studying abroad for exams. In 1925, he went to the United States for further studies and studied plant taxonomy at Harvard University. He received his PhD.