許多科学的研究对象,很早就引起人类对它們的注意,科学家对它們的研究,也已有相当悠久的历史,但它們的全面发展,并且成为一门独立的科学,往往是比較新近的事。本文所要介紹的“孢粉学”(Paly-nology)就是这些新兴科学中的一个。“Palynology”这个名詞是1944年英国植物学家海德(Hyde)和威廉士(Williams)所創立的,它是一个專門研究現代和化石植物花粉和孢子形态、結構及其应用的新科学。现在把它译为“孢粉学”(中国科学院編譯出版委員会編訂的“英中植物名詞汇編”),也有人译为“花粉学”。它的研究范圍主要是限于花粉和孢子的細胞壁方面,而不涉及它們細胞內的生活部分。广义的“孢粉学”包括 Many scientific research objects have long attracted human attention to them. Scientists have studied them for quite a long time, but their comprehensive development has become an independent science and is often relatively recent. . The “Paly-nology” to be introduced in this article is one of these emerging sciences. The term “Palynology” was founded in 1944 by British botanists Hyde and Williams. It is a new science devoted to the study of pollen and spore morphology, structure, and application of modern and fossil plants. Now it is translated as “Porophylology” (Compiled by the Compilation and Publication Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, “British and Chinese botany vocabulary”), also translated as “pollenology.” Its scope of research is mainly limited to the cell walls of pollen and spores, not their living parts of the cell. Generalized “palpology” includes