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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 5: October 2019
Type: Editorial
Published: 2019-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.5.1
Page range: 404–412
Abstract views: 177
PDF downloaded: 409

Prof. Yong-Chong Hong: a Chinese pioneering palaeoentomologist

State Key Loboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
The geological Museum of China, Beijing 100034, China
State Key Loboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom
College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People’s Republic of China
General

Abstract

Professor You-Chong Hong, a famous Chinese palaeoentomologist, was born in Nan’ao County, Shantou City, Guangdong Province on 5 November 1929 and passed away in Beijing on 4 July 2019. In 1953, Prof. Hong graduated from the Beijing College of Geology (China University of Geosciences, Beijing) and was assigned to the Laboratory of Ferrous Metal of the Department of Geology and Minerals of the Ministry of Geology. From 1957 to 1958, he worked in the Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology, Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. He studied fossil mollusks and later fossil insects in the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1958 to 1960 (Fig. 1). He returned to the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences from 1960 to 1963; worked at the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Geology and Minerals from 1963 to 1984; and worked at the Beijing Museum of Natural History after 1984.

References

  1. Hong, Y.C. (1981) Eocene fossil Diptera Insecta in amber of Fushun Coalfield. Geological Publishing House, Beijing. vi+166 pp. [in Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C. (1982) Mesozoic fossil insects of Jiuquan Basin in Gansu Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing. 187 pp. [In Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C. (1983) Middle Jurassic Fossil Insects in North China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, 223 pp. [In Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C. (1985) Fossil insects, scorpionoids and araneids in the diatoms of Shandong. Geological Publishing House, Beijing. 80 pp. [In Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C. (1998) Establishment and evolutionary successions of entomofaunas in the north of China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 72 (1), 1–10 [In Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C. (2002a). Amber insects of China. Beijing Science and Technology Press, Beijing. 653 pp. [In Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C. (2002b) Atlas of amber insects of China. Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Zhengzhou. 394 pp. [In Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C. (2007) Discovery of the fossil glosselytrods (Insecta, Glosselytrodea) from Shaanxi, China. Acta Entomotaxonomica, 50 (3), 271–280.

    Hong, Y.C. & Wang, W.L. (1990) Insects of Laiyang Formation. 44–225. In: Regional Geological Survey Team of Shandong Geological and Mineral Bureau (Ed.), The Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Laiyang Basin of Shandong Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 44–225 [In Chinese].

    Hong, Y.C., Yang, T.C., Wang, S.T., Wang, S.E., Li, Y.K., Sun, M.R., Sun, H.C. & Tu, N.C. (1974). Stratigraphy and palaeontology of Fushun Coalfield, Liaoning Province. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2, 113–149 [In Chinese].