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624 there, he was once editor-in-chief of a paper which was circulated around Tsing Hua Yuan and inside of Peking as well. Mr. Pan was sent to America by the College in the summer of 1919 with the tenth group of Tsing Hua graduates. He first entered Lehigh University, Bethlelem, Pa. where he was admitted as a sophomore student in the Mining Engineering Department. A year later, he was transferred to Michgan College of Mines, from which he was graduated having specialized in Mining, Metallurgy, and Geology, and received his degrees of B. Sc. and E. M. Also, he received his certificate of Mining Rescue Training from the Bureau of Mines in the Department of Interior of the U. S. government. He once assisted Prof. A. E. Seaman, Michigan State Geologist, to study the various geological formations in both the copper and iron countries, particularly the vein phenomena along the Gold Range north of Ishpeming and the Huronian clastics and rocks in the Marquette iron-bearing district where the largest iron ore bodies of the world are found associated with the Middle Marquette series. Also, he was once surveying in Bengal Iron Mine, Iron River, and working in Champion Copper Mill, Mich; and he travelled underground from mine to mine all over the iron country together with Prof. F. W. Sperr to study the different methods of mining. He then went to New York and enrolled as a graduate student in the School of Mines, Columbia University, and was researching on Metallography for his Doctor's degree when unfortunately he was called back on account of his father's illness. Upon his return in 1923, Mr. Pan was strongly recommended by Dr. K. F. Sun to Governor Wang Yuang-Kiang of Fengtien Province and consequently appointed to be Professor of North-Eastern University and also to work out a plan of establishing a first grade Mining School for the university of which the Governor himself 'is the president. In the meantime, he is directing prospecting work on an undeveloped bithuminous property in his district.