He read voraciously, took his students to see what he had read about, and invited zoologists, botanists, geologists, and other scholars to give lectures. "The deeper I got into Tatun Mountain, the less I felt able to stop."
他大量閱讀，帶著學生劍及履及，並邀請台灣的動植物地質學者演講教學，「對大屯山越深入，越覺得欲罷不能。」