民国时期对西方人在华生物采集的限制

The Restrictions on Collecting Animal and Botanical Specimens by Westerners in Republican China

随着生物学调查研究机构的建立,中国生物学家认为研究本土生物是自己份内的事。为维护国家的主权,民国年间成立的中央研究院开始对西方人在华的生物学考察收集采取限制行动,改变了以往西方人在华恣意收集和掠夺生物标本的状况。这对保护本国的生物标本资料和一些珍稀动物发挥了积极作用,是我国生物学家群体成长的一个标志。

Along with the establishment of institutes of investigation and research in China,Chinese biologists considered that the study of animals and plants in China should be done by themselves.For the maintenance of national sovereignty,Academia Sinica established in republican China began to limit westerners＇ biological expedition and collection in China,and changed the previous situation that westerner could collect and plunder biological specimens in China freely.The limiting played an active role in protecting information of biological specimens and the rare animals in China,and may be regarded as a symbol of the groups of Chinese biologists.