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Geoffrey Herklots
Dr Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots (1902 – 14 January 1986) was a British botany, botanist and ornithology, ornithologist. From 1928 he was a reader in biology at Hong Kong University until the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941, during which he was interned in Stanley, Hong Kong, until 1945. After the war was over he returned to London and joined the Colonial Service. From 1953 to 1960 he was Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad.Desmond, Ray. (1994). ''Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists, including Planr Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers''. Taylor & Francis; and The Natural History Museum: London. Herklots is commemorated in the name of an orchid, ''Eria herklotsii'' Crib. Bibliography * Crook, A.H.; & Herklots, G.A.C. (eds). (1930). ''The Hong Kong Naturalist. A quarterly illustrated journal principally for Hong Kong and South China''. Vol 1. Newspaper Enterprise Limited: Hong Kong. * Herklots, G. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botany
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning " pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
