Ch'ing-hai upper Yellow River expedition, 1925-27 / Rock and Simpson ; [cartography by] J.F. Rock.
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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,...
Simpson, W. W. (William Wynn), 1907-1987
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Missionary to Tibet; born William Ekvall Simpson on October 19, 1901 in Old Orchard, Main, USA; worked among nomadic tribespeople; murdered by army deserters at Shih Keo Waunao in Kansu Province, China. From the description of Ephemera of William Ekvall Simpson 1998. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 122932415 ...