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Dr. S. T. Kong, was born at Paoan Hsien, Kuangtung Province, in 1380. He attended the Peiyang University Tienisin, from 1895 to 1900. The year of 1902 found him in the University of California where he studied for three years, graduating with the degree of B. S. in 1905. After that he spent two more years in the States attending Columbia University from which he got an M. A. degree in 1907. Upon returning to China, he was called to attend examination of returned students in Peking, and was conferred with a doctors degree in engineering by the Imperial Ching Government in 1909. Soon after he was engaged as mining and metallurgical engineer hy the Provincial Government of Hunan at Changeha, which position he held until 1909. In 1909-1912, he was engineer-ir-chief for the Lead and Silver Smelting Works of the Hunan government. This work was the first work started by Chinese on a scient-