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50年前,设在上海的商务印书馆出版了一本《地质矿物学大辞典》,填补了当时中国自然科学辞书的一项空白,这部工具书的编著者是地质矿物学家杜其堡先生。杜其堡先生(1898—1942),号若城,浙江绍兴人。少年时代由其堂伯父、近代科学家杜亚泉先生带到上海,先后就读于上海华童公学和圣芳济中学,通过不懈的努力,他掌握了英、德、法三国文字和不少自然科学方面的基础知识,为日后从事研究工作打下了良好基础。1916年,杜其堡先生考入北洋大学地质采矿科,与著名矿业专家孙越崎先生是同学。“业精于勤,荒于嬉,行成于思,毁于随。”他以唐代文学家韩愈的这一名言为指导,在校锐意进取,潜心攻读,勤于思考,学习成绩斐然。毕业后杜其堡先生到上海商务编译所理化博物部任编辑。历时近十年,他潜心著述,撰著编译了不少地质矿物学方面的书籍,对传播近代科学知识有过一定的贡献。他编著的《矿物学》,作为现代初中教科书和新撰初中教科书曾几次再版。为当时各地不少中学所采用。
Fifty years ago, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a large dictionary of geology and mineralogy that filled a gap in the Chinese natural sciences dictionary of that time. The book was edited by a geologist, Mr. Mr. Duchburg (1898-1942), number Ruocheng, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He was brought to Shanghai by his uncle and modern scientist Du Yaquan in his youth and studied in Shanghai Huatong Public School and Shengfangji Middle School. Through his unremitting efforts, he mastered the basic knowledge of English, German and French languages and many natural sciences Knowledge, for the future engaged in research work has laid a good foundation. In 1916, Mr. Du Kebao admitted to the Department of Geology and Mining Beiyang University, with the famous mining expert Mr. Sun Yueqi is a classmate. “Industry is good at diligence, waste in play, line into thinking, destroyed by.” “He Tang Dynasty writer Han Yu of this famous as a guide, determined to make progress in school, with great concentration, diligent in thinking, academic performance Fantastic. After graduation, Mr. Du Qibao to the Shanghai Business Compilation Department of Physical and Chemical Museum editor. For nearly ten years, he devoted himself to writing and compiled many books on geology and mineralogy and made some contributions to the dissemination of modern scientific knowledge. His book ”Mineralogy" has been reprinted several times as a textbook for modern middle schools and as a textbook for junior high schools. At that time, many middle schools adopted it.