在七百多年以前朱熹的時代,地質学已經在中国開始了。可惜在當時和以後那樣社會的底子里,這一種萌芽的科學,一如其他降生在中國的科学一樣,刚生出來不久就夭折了。近代地質科學工作,是一些外國人在中國開始的。自從十九世紀中間以來,他們或者單獨的,或者成羣結队,或者公開的,或者秘密的來到中 In the era of Zhu Xi seven hundred years ago, geology began in China. It is a pity that this sprouting science, like the other sciences that were born in China, was born shortly afterwards in the social foundation of that time and beyond. Modern geosciences work started by some foreigners in China. Since the mid-nineteenth century, they came alone or in groups, either in public or in secret