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Mr. Chi-Chun Lin was born at Shanghai, in 1897. He attended Tsing Hua College, Peking, in 1911, and in 1913-16. He then went to America where he attended Iowa State College, 1916-17; Ohio State University 1917-19, from which he was graduated with honor, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Ceramis Engineering. He was the first Chinese student to study ceramics, realizing the importance of developing the ceramic industries in China. While in America Mr. Lin acted as assistant ceramist of the Mosiac Tile Company, Zanesville, Ohio, 1919-20, and research ceramic engineer of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. He is the author of several technical papers on high fire procelain and procelain high tension insulators which were published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society; he is an active member of the same society. Mr. Lin after returning to China in the spring of 1921 investigated the pottery industries at Ishun and Kingteh-cheng under the auspices of the Chinese