Botanical papers of Joseph Francis Charles Rock, 1921-1927 (inclusive).

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Botanical papers of Joseph Francis Charles Rock, 1921-1927 (inclusive).

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Consists primarily of field notes for various botanical collections made by Rock. Includes notes for specimens collected between December 1921 and March 1924, and for his 1924 to 1927 expedition to China, for the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. Also manuscript on Iowa flora, arranged by families and including scientific and common names.

Less than l linear ft.

Harvard University, Gray Herbarium

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Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962

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Not only a botanist, plant collector, naturalist, and explorer, Joseph Rock was also a philologist, linguist, and anthropologist. Beginning in 1924 Rock explored northwest China and Tibet, collecting plant material for the Arnold Arboretum and ornithological specimens for Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. On his 1924 expedition Rock collected 20,000 herbarium specimens and many packages of propagative material. Few new species were found but Rock lived up to Sargent's principal objective,...