Professor Nystrom, as already] stated, has been intimately connected with Shansi and its Univers ever since the inception of the lat ter: and to him is largely due the maintenance of interest in scientific matters. He remained on the staff of the University till the latter was; closed in 1911 at the outbreak of the revolution, At that time he joined the writer as second in command of the Shensi Relief Expedition (described at the time as a second Jameson Raid), which proceeded from Taiyuan fu into the neighbouring pro-ince of Shensi, and rescued over}
30 foreign missionaries who had] been cut off from help from Peking. by the complete collapse of law and order in that province. Subsequently Nystrom organized a 10: cond expedition into North Shansi to rescue some Swedish missionaries, who were isolated on the Mo golian frontier. Thereafter he was employed under the Geological Survey, which had been started by the Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry, and explored and surveyed the Hsuan-hua Fu iron fields and the coal folds of Honan, making a map! of the latter province, giving details of the mineral resources, In 1920 he returned to Taiyuanfu, where he rejoined the University, staff as Professor of Geology.
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