应澳大利亚科学院、博物馆和古生物学会邀请,并得到澳方赞助,我们一行三人于今年2月中旬赴澳大利亚参加“早期脊椎动物的演化和生物地理”专题学术讨论会。本次会议的主持人。澳大利亚国立大学地质系主任坎贝尔教授专程从堪培拉开车到悉尼机场来迎接我们。坎贝尔教授去年曾访问过中国,因此我们已经是老朋友了。他驱车把我们送到预定的旅馆,一路上谈笑风生,看不出任何一点教授的“派头”。他向我们谈到,中、澳两国虽 At the invitation of the Australian Academy of Sciences, Museums and Paleontology Society and sponsored by the Australian side, we, together with our three people, traveled to Australia in mid-February this year to participate in a special symposium on the evolution and biogeography of early vertebrates. The meeting’s moderator. Professor Campbell, Head of the Department of Geology, Australian National University made a special trip to Canberra from driving to Sydney Airport to greet us. Professor Campbell visited China last year, so we are already old friends. He drove us to the scheduled hotel, talking and laughing along the way, not seeing any “professor” of the professor. He told us that although China and Australia have both