Background
Mr. Lin was born at Pao-an Hsien, Guangdong province in 1888.
Mr. Lin was born at Pao-an Hsien, Guangdong province in 1888.
Mr. Lin received his early education at St. John’s University, Shanghai graduating in 1909.
In the fall of 1909 Mr. Lin went to America and in 1912 was graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College with the degree of B. Sc. in agriculture. Then he took post graduate work in forestry at the Yale Forest School, Yale University and obtained the degree of M. F. in 1914.
In the summer of 1914 Mr. Lin investigated the German forestry service. He returned to China in the fall of 1915 and was appointed Lecturer on Conservation in the National Y. M. C. A. in 1915. In 1917 he became Technical Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, Peking. In the fall of 1917 he accepted the professorship on forestry in the University of Nanjing.
In April 1919 Mr. Lin became Commissioner of Forestry for Shandong and concurrently forester in the Ministry of Communications on railway forestry matters, and adviser to the Shandong Civil Governor. Later he served as expert on agricultural and forestry matters at the Shantung Negotiations in Peking in the fall of 1922. Since March 1923 Mr. Lin has been Director of the Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry, Qingdao and concurrently special secretary for general affairs for the Qingdao government.
Mr. Lin was the author of the following publications: Elements of Forestry, 1915; Manual of Forestry, 1916; The Chinese Wood Oil, Camphor, Etc., 1917; Forests and Zhili Flood, 1918; Relation of Forests to Floods and Droughts, 1919; Some Features of Chinese Agriculture, 1922. The Elements of Forestry and Manual of Forestry, published by the Commercial Press were popular text books used in the agricultural schools and colleges of China.