高振西先生不幸于1991年12月9日在北京医科大学第一医院逝世,终年84岁,痛哉! 高振西先生,字化白,笔名化普,系著名地质学家,博物馆学家和地质科普活动家。他还是中国科学院地学部委员和第五、六届全国政协委员。高振西先生作为一个地质学家,他特别致力于区域地质的调查和研究。早在他毕业北京大学地质学系之前二年,他就对我国北方的震旦系地层发生了浓厚的兴趣,并于1930年发表了他的第一篇论文:《震旦一词在中国地质学上意义的变迁》,以后他和熊永先, Mr. Gao Zhenshi Unfortunately, on December 9, 1991, he died at the First Hospital of Beijing Medical University and died at the age of 84. Mr. Gao Zhenxi, a famous writer of white gens and pseudonym, is a famous geologist, Family. He is also a member of the Department of Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and member of the Fifth and Sixth CPPCC National Committee. Mr. Gao Zhenxi, as a geologist, devoted special attention to the investigation and research of regional geology. Two years before he graduated from the Department of Geology, Peking University, he had a strong interest in the Sinian strata in northern China. In 1930, he published his first essay: “The word Aurora in China’s geology Learning significance of change ”, after he and Xiong Yong Xian,