夏振铎教授,浙江桐乡人,生于一八九八年。因患肺癌长期医治无效,不幸于一九七八年十一月十六日凌晨五时逝世,终年80岁。夏振铎教授一九二四年去日本国立九州大学农学部学习,毕业后继续参加该校蚕桑技术研究工作;一九二八年回国后一直从事蚕桑教育和蚕桑技术、 Professor Xia Zhen Duo, Tongxiang, Zhejiang, was born in 1898. Unfortunately for long-term treatment of lung cancer, it unfortunately passed away at 5 am on November 16, 1978, at the age of 80. Professor Xia Zhenduo went to Japan’s Kyushu University Faculty of Agriculture for study in 1924. After graduation, he continued to participate in the research work on sericulture of the university. After returning to China in 1928, he had been engaged in sericulture education and silkworm mulberry technology,