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步达生(Davidson Black,1884—1934)是二十年代来华的加拿大学者,曾任北平地质调查所新生代研究室名誉主任。他积极参加周口店北京人化石研究工作,是鉴定“北京人”的第一人,对我国学术作出了巨大贡献。去年7月25日是他诞生一百周年,特略述步氏生平事迹以为纪念之。
Davidson Black (1884-1934), a Canadian scholar who came to China in the 1920s, was honorary director of the Cenozoic Research Office of the Peiping Geological Survey. He actively participated in the fossil research work of Peking Man in Zhoukoudian and was the first person to identify “Peking Man ” and made great contribution to Chinese academic. July 25 last year, he is the centenary of his birth, especially a brief account of the Bei’s life story to commemorate.