RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1991 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/k356gt84j 184 and the Aurora University, the former French university, unknown to the members of the staff at the Department of Botany, where I have the pleasure and the good fortune to work. This excited their curiosity, they had never heard of a French Museum in Shanghai. That led Mr. Liu Zhong Ling, the organizer of this conference to invite me to give a talk on the History of the Heude Museum. The following is a poor result of memory work and information plucked from a few available sources. Charles de Vol's book, Ferns and Fern Allies of East Central China, published by the Heude Museum in 1945 has been of great assistance in writing this paper. The Zi-Ka-Wei (Xu Jia Hui) Museum This Museum was situated at the S. W. of Shanghai, just on the border of the Old French Concession. It was established in 1868 by Pierre Heude SJ., the year of his arrival in China. P. Heude made extensive collections in the Kiangsu, Anhwei and Chekiang Provinces. Between 1868 and 1880, he organized 13 expeditions. Though he collected plant specimens, he was essentially a zoologist, interested in molluscs, reptiles, fishes, birds and mammals. From 1892 to 1902, he extended his field work to the Philippines, Indonesia (Java), French Indo-China (now, Vietnam), Siam (Thailand), Polynesia, Japan and other neighbouring countries. I remember possessing a large volume on Conchology of Freshwater Molluscs. The pages were filled with series of scientifically and artistically drawn specimens well marshalled all through the book, with full descriptions and notes. A page advertising his works I discovered at the back of volume VI book I of the Zikawei publications shows the astonishing achievement of that remarkable man. On two pages, some of his works are listed: 5 tomes or large volumes each comprising 4 books, that is 20 books. A total of 1,100 pages, large format (in 4to) with 270 plates, some in colour (brush-painted). The content very impressive. (see below) River Conchology of the Kiangsu Province and Central China Study on the Trionyx ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1991 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/k356gt84j 185 Terrestrial Molluse of the Blue River Valley Comparative study on the Cervidae and Suidae in China, Philippines, Indo-China, with osteographic and odonto-graphic descriptions. Notes on the Capricorn, Kemas and Pseudosikas of China and Philippines. Odontologic Study of Carnivorous Mammals Ruminants, Water Buffalo, Bubalus Moinitensis Cervidae, Hippelaphus of Malesian Islands. Odontologic Study of Ruminants The Spotted Deer of Japan Insectivores and Marsupials Notes on the Capricorns of Northern Shensi Province Study on Chinese Bears and other Ursines. The Capricorn of Setchuan and of East Tibet The Bears and allies The Euhydris, the Bear and the Otary The Eastern Talpidae Study on the Rodentia Discussion and Homologie Revision on the Classification of the Deer (the Sikas), The Group of the Goto. Odontology of the Chinese Boar, The Deer of the Philippines The Lemurs, Tarsians, Galeopithecians, Gabians. Micropithecians-Anthropoids-Odontology-Man Study on the Ursidae etc. Frederic Courtois S.J. succeeded Pierre Heude as Director of the Zi-Kia-Wei Museum. He was a botanist and ornithologist. He was interested in plants and birds. From 1906 to 1928, he organized expeditions almost ================================================================================