Diary fo [i.e. of] Joseph F. Rock, 1924-1927 [microform].

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Diary fo [i.e. of] Joseph F. Rock, 1924-1927 [microform].

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Diary kept by Rock during the Arnold Arboretum expedition to western China and Tibet, 1924-1927. Typescript contains two page numbering systems suggesting this may be copied from another manuscript.

7 v. ; 33 cm.

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7955720

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library

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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,...