天津北疆博物院考实

On the Haongho-Paiho Museum in Tientsin

天津北疆博物院在近代中国科学界和科技史上具有举世知名地位。它由法国天主教耶稣会于1924年创办,挂靠于天津马场道的工商学院。桑志华、德日进等人在中国北方进行了多年的考察和采集活动,其部分动植物标本和化石就收藏在该博物院内。博物院自始至终受到天主教耶稣会在经济和人员上的支持,收集植物标本3.5万余种、人类生物标本7千余种、动物标本2千余种、矿物标本千余种,还有大批有关人种学、动物学、植物学、古生物学、岩石学、矿物学以及华北特有的工业等方面的文献,被誉为东亚第一博物馆。

The Haongho-Paiho Museum in Tientsin has an important position in history of science and technology of modern China. It was founded by French Jesuits in 1924 and attached to Hautes Etudes In-dustrielles et Commerciales in Tientsin. For many years,Jesuits E.Licent and P.Teilhard de chardin investigated and collected specimens in North China and a part of them were stored up in this museum. From the beginning to the end, it had been getting financial and personal support from the Society of Jesuits. It had collected various specimens as following: 35000 species of plant, more than 7000 anthropological species, more than 2000 species of animal, more than 1000 species of minerals and supplied a lot of documents about anthropology, zoology, botany, antique-biology, rockology, mineralogy and special industries in North China. Therefore, it had been regarded as the No. 1 among museums in East Asia.