I-KU (T'AI-VUEN), Commissioner for Reclamation; native of Manchuria; metropolitan graduate, 1892. Assistant Supervisor of Instruction, June, 1900; sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, July, 1900; Senior Vice-President, Board of War, Feb., 1901; Deputy Lieut.-General, Bordered Blue Banner Corps, Nov., 1901;. Tartar -General, Sni-Yuan-Ch'eng, Oct., 1903; Commissioner for Reclamation of Waste Lands, T'aiyuen-fu, Shansi, 1905.