Mr. Chunjen Constant Chen, was born November 1, 1898 and is a native of Shanghai. He received his early education in the Ming Li Middle School of Shanghai, after which he went to the United States as a privately supported student. From 1914 to 1915 he studied at the University High School of the University of California and then entered the University of California. In 1919, he entered Cornell University and received the degree of B. S. the same year. Then he attended the University of Maryland and received the degree of M. S. the following year. During his stay at Cornell he served as student assistant in the department of Crop Physiology Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, M. S. Department of Agriculture, and assistant in Entomology, Summer School of Cornell. During his stay at Maryland University, he served as research assistant in Plant Pathology of Maryland Agriculture Experiment Station from 1919 to 1920. In 1920 he was appointed a fellow in Cotton Improvement, on behalf of the Chinese Cotton Millowners' Association and was attached to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Chen returned to China in the summer of 1921 and was appointed agricultural advisor to the Commissioner of Industry of Chihli Province. In 1922, he was appointed Cotton Specialist in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. He is now 'professor of Biology and Agriculture in Tsing Hua College and lecturer in Agriculture in Yenching University in charge of Plant Breeding Experiment Station at Hai Tien, Peking member and field representative of the World Agriculture Society and collaborator of the Botanical Abstracts, U. S. A. He is a contributor to a number of technical publications in America such as Science, the Phytopathology and the Technical Bulletin of the Maryland Agriculture Experiment Station.
