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Mr. F. Ch'in was born at Chiating Hsien, Kiangsu Province, in 1887. He received his middle school and college education in Shanghai. In 1906 he went to America and studied mathematics and astronomy at Harvard University, from which school he was graduated in 1909 with the degree of A. B., (Magna Cum Laude). In the same year he obtained the degree of A. M. During 1909-1910 Mr. Ch’in spent a year in England and Germany taking post-graduate courses at Glasgow University and Freiburg University. Mr. Ch'in returned to China in June 1910 and became Dean of the Kiangnan High School of Nanking. Later he accepted the Deanship of the Pootung Middle School, Shanghai. From 1912 to 1915