我国著名植物学家,国际著名蕨类植物分类学家秦仁昌教授因病于1986年7月在北京逝世,享年88岁。秦仁昌教授1898年生于江苏省武进县。1925年毕业于南京金陵大学林学系。以后历任东南大学讲师,南京中央研究院自然历史博物馆植物部主任,北平静生生物调查所研究员兼标本室主任,庐山森林植物园主任,云南丽江植物工作站主任,云南大学生物系和林学系教授兼主任以及云南省建设厅农业改进所所长等职。1929年被派往丹麦哥本哈根大学植物博物馆,在当时世界著名蕨类学大师C.Christense教授指导下,专攻蕨类植物分类学。随后到瑞典、德国、法国,奥地利、捷克等国国家标本馆短期工作,最后在英国邱园植物标本馆及大英博物馆标本馆进行系统研究,写出七十多万字包括11科86属1200多种的第一部完整的中国蕨类植物专著。拍摄模式标本照片一万八千多张并作了记录,为 Professor Qin Renchang, a famous botanist and internationally renowned fern taxonomic expert, died of an illness in Beijing in July 1986 at the age of 88. Professor Qin Renchang was born in Wujin County, Jiangsu Province in 1898. In 1925 graduated from Nanjing Jinling University Department of Forestry. Later served as a lecturer at Southeast University, Nanjing Central Research Institute of Natural History museum director of plants, Peking Institute of Quintessence researcher and specimen director, Director of Lushan Forest Botanical Garden, Lijiang, Yunnan plant director, Yunnan University Department of Biology and Forestry Professor and director As well as director of Yunnan Provincial Construction Department of Agricultural Improvement and other staff. In 1929 was sent to the Danish Museum of Plantarium in Copenhagen, under the guidance of Professor C.Christense the world famous ferns master, specializing in taxonomy of ferns. Then he went to Sweden, Germany, France, Austria, Czech Republic and other countries for a short period of herbarium work, and finally in the United Kingdom Cuiyuan Herbarium and the British Museum Museum to conduct systematic research, write more than 700,000 words, including 11 families and 86 genera and 1200 species The first complete monograph on Chinese ferns. Photography mode specimens more than 18,000 photographs and made a record for