Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927
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Joseph Charles Francis Rock (1884–1962)
The last of the great plant hunters employed by Charles Sprague Sargent, Rock was a botanist, anthropologist, explorer, linguist, and author. He had immigrated to the United States from his native Austria in 1905, but between 1920 and 1949 Rock lived in China for extended periods, exploring, collecting plants and animals, and taking pictures for various United States agencies and other institutions, including The National Geographic Society, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Arnold Arboretum. More about Rock.
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