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Volume II, Number 1
January 1963

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Almost sixty years ago a young Austrian left his homeland to see the world
and regain his health. His trip around the world was to be postponed for a decade,
for he made a prolonged stopover in Hawaii. During his lifetime he made his home
in Hawaii and China. This energetic, versatile, and legendary scientist became
recognized throughout the world first as a botanist, then as plant collector, natur-
alist, and explorer. His explorations and his remarkable linguistic ability led him
to become a geographer, orientalist, philologist, and anthropologist. His contri-
butions were legion and they enlightened, increased, and diffused mankind's know-
ledge about the flora of the Hawaiian Islands and the natural history of Western
China and Eastern Tibet.

Dr. Joseph Etancis Charles Rock (Josef Franz Karl Rock) was born to Franz and
Francisca (Hofer) Rock on January 13, 1884, in Vienna, Austria. His mother died
when he was only six years old and his older sister and father cared for him. His
family felt that his destiny lay in the Church and directed his early training to-
ward the priesthood. His own inclinations, however, did not point in this direction.
Even as a young child he developed a lively curiosity about strange lands and their
strange tongues, triggered by a visit to Egypt with his father at age 10. In Egypt
he learned to speak Arabic so fluently that at age 16 he taught the language at the
University. At home he taught himself Chinese, studying it by candle light after
the household had retired. This conflict between his father's and sister's plan for
his life and his own interests in the world about him led him to leave home as soon
as his formal education at the Vienna Schoten Gymnasium and Vienna University were
completed.

He wandered about Europe and was in Antwerp when he decided to spend the sum-
mer in England. However, he missed the channel steamer and on impulse bought pas-
sage for the United States, leaving Antwerp on board the SS Zeeland and arriving
in New York on September 9, 1905. After a short stay in New York, his health forced
him to seek a warmer and drier climate and he went to Texas where he attended the

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University to gain greater proficiency in English. This set the linguistic pattern
for the rest of his life, for from that time on all of his writing was done in
English. L!Forsaking the land of his birth, he became a naturalized citizen in May
1913. His heaich did not improve appreciably and he was advised to to go Arizona.
However, he had always had a longing to see the tropics, r.69 against the doctor's ad-
vice that he had but three months to live unless he sought dry desert air, he set
off for Hawaii. An interesting fact is that Dr. William Hillebrand, who preceded
him as resident botanist, was also afflicted with tuberculosis. Like his predeces-
sor, Rock recovered in Hawaii's salubrious climate and regained his health.

His first position upon his arrival in Honolulu in 1907 was as one of the
three full-time teachers at Mills School. The following year the school became known
as Mid-Pacific Institute. In September 1908 Rock resigned for reasons of health in
order to be out-of-doors, and was placed on official leave of absence by the school.

That same month he went on a botany trip with Charles N. Forbes, Assistant in Botany
at the B. P. Bishop Museum, who had arrived in June. Rock showed him a tree which
he had seen two months before. In Forbes' first publication of new Hawaiian plants,
he named that tree Euphorbia Rockii in honor of Rock.

In October 1908 he joined the Division of Forestry, Board of Commissioners
of Agriculture and Forestry, Territory of Hawaii (now Forestry Division, Department
of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii), first as Botanical Collector, and
later as Botanical Assistant. His assignment as the first and only Botanist of the
Board consisted of collecting seeds of rare Hawaiian trees and shrubs for exchange
purposes and of establishing a herbarium. His botanical knowledge was largely self-
taught, but his tremendous capability made the task easy. He applied himself by
studying the available botanical literature and quickly became thoroughly familiar
with the native flora by spending most of his time in the field on the different
islands pursuing his studies. His interest in botany was not limited to the woody
plants. He made a complete fern collection and at Waikiki Beach collected limu (al^ae) ,
utilizing what was perhaps the first glass bottomed boat in Hawaii which Alexander "

Hume Ford built for him. The herbarium he developed from his own Hawaiian plant col-
lections and from exchanges with mainland U. S. and European herbaria. Such spec-
ialists as 0. Beccari, E. B. Copeland, C. de Candolle, A. Heimerl, F. L. Lewton,

U. Martelli, L. Radlkofer, and A. Zahlbruckner , collaborated with him in the identi-
fication of Hawaiian plants and published many new species from his collections. The
forestry and botany exhibit which he prepared for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
in 1909 won a gold medal. He wrote many reports in the Board's Biennial Reports ancj
The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist. His early scientific publications comprise
the entire Botanical Bulletin series of the Board.

On September 1, 1911, he was transferred to the College of Hawaii as Botanist,
since the Board of Agriculture & Forestry's funds for botanical purposes were limited.
Arrangements for the transfer of the herbarium to the College on an indefinite loan
basis were completed the following summer when the College's first permanent build-
ing was constructed. Despite the changeover, he continued his relationship with the
Board in an honorary capacity as Consulting Botanist until 1921. At the four year
old College, which had that year changed its name from the College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts to the College of Hawaii, Rock was placed in charge of the herbar-
ium .

In June 1913 with a Bishop Museum Expedition he made a trip to Palmyra Island
which produced the flora of Palmyra. During the 1913-14 school year he made a trip
around the world at his own expense, but his trip was not a selfish one. He collected
seeds and plants for the reforestation of Mauna Kea and Haleakala for the Board of ‘
Agriculture and Forestry; bamboos from the Himalayan area for planting in the Panama
Canal Zone at the request of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture (which association was to continue in a Collaborator status until 1944);
and examined Hawaiian herbarium specimens in European and American institutions for

January 1963

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the College. While at the Botanisches Museum at Ber lin-Dahlem, Rock obtained per-
mission to take 1,000 sheets of fragments and duplicates from the type collections
of William Hillebrand, M. D., which were made during his residence in the islands
in 1851-71. This was fortunate since the museum's herbarium was destroyed on
March 1, 1943, during World War II. Portions of the type specimens of Hawaiian
plants described by Dr. Asa Gray were also obtained from the Gray Herbarium at Har-
vard University, and photographs of Hawaiian specimens were made at the Harvard,
Berlin, Vienna, and Paris museums. He developed the herbarium further by securing
Hawaiian plant collections and specimens from Australia, Ceylon, Cuba, Central and
South America , Java, Mauritius, New Zealand, and the Philippines through exchanges
with other ' institutions . He subsequently made several other plant introduction
trips, all at his own expense; in 1916 to the Philippines, Java, and Singapore; in
1917 to southern California; and in 1919 to Siam, Malaya, and Java.

After 1914 he was listed in the college's catalog as the only instructor of
the Systematic Botany Division's courses: "Botany 10. Systematic Botany for Advanced
Students" (first and second semesters, three credits) and "Botany 11. Advanced Re-
search Work in Phaenogamic Botany" (credits arranged) . In 1919 he was officially
appointed Professor of Systematic Botany. One of his former students, Edwin H. Bryan,
Jr. (now Curator of Collections, and Manager, Pacific Scientific Information Center,

B. P. Bishop Museum), who was then a part-time Assistant in Entomology at the Museum,
recalls that he was the only student in Rock's systematic botany class in 1919-20.

Rock would lecture informally in Latin or English, and Bryan transcribed these notes.
Bryan was secretary, laboratory assistant, and mounter for several hours each day dur-
ing these informal "class" sessions, and assisted in the descriptions and biblio-
graphic data for Pritchardia, Plantago, and other plant groups. Rock's memory was

phenomenal there were piles of books and specimens all over his small work room

since there were few shelves and cabinets, but he knew where everything was in spite
of the apparent disorder. Before Rock left Hawaii, he and Bryan arranged and cata-
loged the herbarium.

In 1914 Rock was appointed to the Buildings and Grounds Faculty Committee,
and placed in charge of the plantings for the twenty acres alloted for the campus as
a botanical garden. According to the President's Report for 1915-17, "In order
properly to develop these plantings we have prepared a permanent plan for placing
the buildings and drives so that no valuable plants need be planted in situations
which will later be needed for other purposes." By 1918 Rock had planted 500 differ*
ent species on the campus. These plants were from Asia, Indonesia, America, and
Hawaii. All of the native plants were grown from seeds, and many of them were from
Rock's type collections of new species.

During his residence in Hawaii, this thorough and dynamic plant collector ex-
plored all the major islands, staying at each for weeks and months. He took with him
his botanical equipment and a view camera with glass plates. He enlisted local resi-
dents as collecting assistants and as subscribers to publish his books. His botan-
izing resulted in the publication, by patronage, of The Indigenous Trees of the
Hawaiian Islands in 1913. In the preface he apologizes for his construction of sen-
tences, since English was not his native language, and thereby committed what is per-
haps the only grammatical error. Another tome followed four years later. The Orna-
mental Trees of Hawaii. Both volumes were profusely illustrated with his photographs.
He made a list of plants located in Mrs. Mary E. Foster's estate in Nuuanu Valley,
Honolulu. This was significant because most of the plants were introduced by Hille-
brand whose home this once was. The site later became Foster Botanical Garden under
the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation, City and County of Hono-
lulu.

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Dr. Rock was a member of the Advisory Committee, Experiment Station of the
Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Because of the need for water to irrigate
the sugar cane fields, he cooperated with them on water development since the water-
sheds are contained in the forest reserves. They in turn published his treatise,

The Leguminous Plants of Hawaii.

Regarding his affiliation with the Bernice P. Bishop Museum during these
years, both Rock and the Museum several times contemplated a more permanent rela-
tionship although none was consummated until 1955. There was, nevertheless, begin-
ning in 1908 a cooperative relationship between the two. In 1908 Forbes and Rock
collected in several localities on Oahu. In 1913 Dr. C. Montague Cooke, Jr., and
Rock went to Palmyra Island to collect shells and plants for 16 days. The museum
published two of his monographs in the Memoirs series. The first, on the Lobelioids
in 1919, was one in' which the Director, Dr. W. T. Brigham had expressed a keen in-
terest 11 years before. On the day the monograph was issued. Rock told the museum
that it was his hope "that every family would eventually be worked up in a similar
style, the whole forming an Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands." Two years
later a monograph on Pr itchardia was published with Odoardo Beccari as co-author.

As in his earlier works, both of these illustrated the various taxa. Shortly after .
Rock left Hawaii he donated to the museum his photographs and the manuscript of
Hillebrand's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (1888) which he had obtained in Washington,
D. C., from Hillebrand's son.

In 1920, at the time of the transition of the College of Hawaii to University
status, a reciprocity agreement between the University and the Museum was made and,
by legislation, the Museum became the Territory's depository for systematic collec-
tions. The museum was to maintain the collections with the University assisting in
the actual collecting. In 1922 the herbarium of 28,000 specimens which Rock had
amassed for the herbaria of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry and the University
of Hawaii was transferred to the Bishop Museum, which at that time had only 53,000
Specimens. In 1941 the remainder of the Board's herbarium of 529 specimens, of which
315 were Rock's, and in 1958 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters" Association Herbarium of
3,000 specimens (about 107o having been collected by Rock) were given to the Museum.
Rock himself was to deposit the specimens he collected after 1953 in the Museum.

On May 25, 1920, Rock left Hawaii to spend the next three decades in active
exploration and research in Asia. During this period he was to collect thousands of
botanical, ornithological, and zoological specimens; to introduce thousands of Asiatic
plants to the United States; to map and photograph heretofore unknown regions; to
translate volumes of native literature; to do research on the peoples, culture, folk-
lore, religion, and geography of western China and eastern Tibet memoralized through.
innumerable books, articles in scientific journals, and in the National Geographic
Magazine.

Rock had always had a desire to travel in the Orient and the Office of Foreign
Seed and Plant Introduction, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture
first provided this opportunity for him. In 1920 he was sent to Indo-China, Siam,
Burma, and India to find seeds of the chaulmoogra (Hydnocarpus Kurzii (King) Warberg) .
In 1918 Dr. A. L. Dean, President of the College of Hawaii, had prepared constituents
of the chaulmoogra oil in large quantities for clinical use and established them as
the first useable cure for Hansen's disease. Due to the success of Rock's exploration
a plantation of 2,980 trees of this and related species were planted in the Waiahole
Forest Reserve on Oahu in 1921-22.

In 1922 Rock took up his residence in Li-chiang, the heart of the Na-khi
country. His interest in these aboriginal people and their unique culture led him
to make, a decade later, his life work the study, of the Na-khi tribe of northwest
Yun-nan Province, China. Using Li-chiang as a base. Rock explored and collected plant
on the nearby Snow Range to the 17,000 foot level, in the Kingdom of Mu-li, and along

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the Burma-China border. By 1923 he was far into Yun-nan Province in southwest China,
and the National Geographic Society took over the sponsorship of his explorations
for more than a year. He continued his work in the mountain ranges in the vicinity
of the Mekong and Yangtze Rivers, searching for new plant material. During this
period he collected over 80,000 plant specimens, as well as seeds of many Asiatic
ornamentals as yet not introduced into the Western World. He also collected 1,600
skins of birds which were presented to the U. S. National Museum.

In 1924 Rock returned to Washington, D. C., visiting the Arnold Arboretum that
summer. Professor C. S. Sargent, Director, expressed his interest in sending a bo-
tanist to collect seeds of woody plants from two little known mountain ranges (Amnye
Ma-chhen and Richthofen) near the Yellow River. As a result of this conference.

Rock was selected to do this under the sponsorship of Harvard University. In addi-
tion to collecting for the Arnold Arboretum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology di-
rected the collecting of ornithological specimens from northwest China and Tibet.

Rock returned to Yun-nan Province and secured the help of his former Na-khi assis-
tants. In spite of bouts with flu and bronchitis, and with his expedition repeatedly
threatened with brigand attacks, the Arboretum received the first packet of seeds one
year after he left San Francisco. More were sent later. These were distributed to
all principal botanical and horticultural institutions in the northern parts of North
America and Europe. Rock explored the Yangtze River country, along the Kansu -Szechuan
border, the Tebbu region in southwestern Kansu, and the Koko Nor Lake at 10,700 ft.
elevation in northeast Tibet. He searched for plant material in the Richthofen Range,
only to discover that it was almost bare of vegetation. Nevertheless, he collected
as much seed as he could. In later years it was discovered that the conifer seeds
which he collected proved to be important in the reforestation of areas with a severe
climate. He spent the winter of 1925-26 in the Lamasary of Cho-ni on the Kansu
Steppes. There he observed the Butter Festival and the Mystery Plays of this almost
unknown tribe. In the spring he made a reconnaisance of the Amnye Ma-chhen Range,
hurried because of hostile Golock tribesmen, followed by several months exploring the
Tebbu country, an area rich in wild mountain scenery and beautiful flora where no
Caucasian had ever before set foot. He wintered in Cho-ni again. In the spring of 1927
he left in a southwesterly direction to Kuan-hsien, crossed the plain to Chengtu, and
took the overland route to Chungking before proceeding by steamer to Shanghai, arriv-
ing there in May 1927. On this botanical and zoological expedition, he collected
20,000 herbarium specimens in addition to the many packets of propagative material^
and 1,000 skins of birds, although the latter collection was a secondary task.

In 1927 after a short rest in the United States the National Geographic Society
appointed him to direct their Southwest China Expedition, a three year task. By May
1928 he was in Yung-ning, home of the Hli-khin (Mo- so) tribe, and then in Mu-li,

Szechuan Province, before exploring and collecting on the 14,000 and 17,000 ft. levels
of the Konka Risumgongba Range. The winter was spent in Nv-lv-k’o, Yun-nan, where he
explored the eastern slopes of the Li-chiang Snow Range. In the spring he returned to
Mu-li to explore and map the Minya Konka Range, During the late summer and fall he
was in the valleys and ranges of the great river trenches of Asia: the Yalung, Mekong,
Salwin, and Yangtze Rivers. There some of the canyon walls were over two miles above
the rivers. He returned to Nv-lv-k'd for the winter of 1929-30, continuing the sur-
vey of the eastern slopes of the Li-chiang Snow Range. Along with the thousands of
plant specimens and seeds collected, he sent 1,700 birds to the U. S. National Museum.

In 1930 Rock returned to the United States for a short visit and was sent back
to China for two years, this time by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Dur-
ing this period he faced many difficulties for the country x^7as filled xi/ith bandits.

Again with his Na-khi assistants, he explored the Mekong and Salwin valleys and the
Irrawaddy headwaters, collecting 1,800 skins of birds. The University of California
Botanical Garden undertook Rock's research in 1932-33. Again he collected thousands

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of seeds and herbarium specimens from v/estern China, including species of Rhodo-
dendron, Potentilla, Berberis, Meconopsis, and Primula, which x^^ere distributed by
the University to many other botanical gardens, including the Royal Botanic Garden
at Edinburgh.

Many Limes during these different expeditions Rock x/as thought to be "lost."

As Honorary Collaboratory for the U. S. National Museum, his research encompassed
ethnology, botany, and zoology. He x^as also Collaborator x^ith the Harvard- Yenching
Institute and Agricultural A.dvisor to the ?rox7incial Government of Yun-nan. This
portion of his life is vividly depicted in a series of ten highly pictorial articles
which he contributed to the National Geographic Magazine (1922-35) .

On his way to Europe in 1933, he told Honolulu nex^rspaper reporters that he
now considered himself "too old" for exploration and living in the wilds, for it was
a month's journey to the nearest physician. However, after spending the holidays in
Vienna, he went back to China in 1934 via the United States and Hawaii. The explor-
ation portion of his life was ncx^ behind him and he continued, on his own, his studies
of the Na-khi peoples xdhich ha had begun txjo years before. For nearly IZ^^years he
studied and translated religious texts of tha Na-khi tribe of northeast Yun-nan
Province. He had agents scouring China for rare classics and texts. In 1935 because
of the conflict between tha Chinese Nationalists and Communists he evacxlated his
library to Indo-China, returned it to Kunmrng, and had to repeat this the following
year for the same reasons.- Many times during this period at the urging of his friends
he thought of returning to Hawaii because of the political unrest in China. During
1938-40 he held the position of Research Professor in Chinese Culture at the Univer-
sity of Hawaii. In 1938 the Japanese bombed Kunming and for the third time he sent
his library to Indo-China, Except for a brief period in Europe, he was almost con-
tinuously in Dalat, South Annam from 1938 until 1940^when he directed the U. S.
National Museum's ornithological eixpedition to Annam' and Cambodia. In 1941, the
Japanese bombing of Shanghai destroyed the plates of a four volume work in the pro-
cess of printing. By this time he had published six articles and two books about
the Na-khi people.

His research x^as further interrupted by World War II. In 1944 he x^as evacuated
by place to the United States, becoming Expert Consultant and Geographic Specialist
and later, until 1945, Research Analyst .for the U, S- army Map Service in Washington,
D. C. As the only authority of that region, he prepared maps of western China for
military use. The Minya Konka Range which he had napped and explored for the Nation-
al Geographic Society in 1929 x^as the route which American pilots flew between India
and Chungking, China.

The culmination of twelx^^e x^ears of research xjas lost when the ship .carrying
his manuscripts from Calcutta to the United States x^as sunk by Japanese torpedoes in
the Arabian Sea. All that was left were three photostated volumes x-;hich Walter
Sxi/ingle of the U. S. D . A. had insisted be deposited in the Library of Congress in
1934. At this time he was offered a Research Associate position at the University
of Hawaii but chose instead to return to China to continue his research.

As Research Felloxj of tht; Harvard- Yenching Institute from 1945 to 1950, he
was finally able to return to China at the end of 1946. He again resided in Li-
chiang to continue his translations of tie pictographic and syllabic scripts of , the
Na-khi tribe. In 1948 he was forced to go to Boston for a brief period because of
illness. In May 1949 a band of 4,000 bandits threatened to capture Li-chiang and he
was forced to flee to Kunming and the Na-khi Dto-mba, who. was assisting Rock with
his translations, fled to his home- When the bandits were defeated a month later,
he returned to Li-chiang by plane and was greeted by an army with machine guns leveled
at him. There he found that the day before his arrival, the town had been taken over
by Communists. After they searched his possessions for arms, they left. He was told
by the villagers that Americans were no longer wanted in China. The Na-khi Dto-mba

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did not return' ibr fear of reprisals. Rock remained in Li-chiang for a month.

After being prpcl,aimed as one of the public enemies by the Communists, he was
finally forced to leave his beloved China forever.

He went to Rome to confer with Professor Guiseppe Tucci, President of the
Italian Institute of the Middle and Far East about continuing his work. The In-
stitute undertook publication of several of his volumes in their Oriental Series.

He spent the next two years between England and India, still with the hope of being
able to return to China.

During and after his residence in China, he collected and translated key vol-
umes of over 8,000 books of the original literature of the Na-khi tribe, wrote many
articles and books about the Na-khi, and took the first natural color photographs
of the Tibetan borderland regions- He introduced into the Western World 493 species
of Rhododendron, more than had been previously known in America. Plants were dis-
tributed by his sponsoring institutions and planted in the Golden Gate State Park
in San Francisco, the University of California Botanical Garden, the Puget Sound
Area, the eastern coast of the United States, Canada, the Arnold Arboretum, Kew Gar-
dens, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh- He also introduced blight-
resistant chestnuts from China which were widely distributed by the USDA in the
hopes of restoring this plant to the American forests. During one trip he collected
6,000 chestnut plants. He also brought back many conifer seeds, including spruce,
fir, hemlock, pine, and juniper, as well as hundreds of flowering plants. His
thousands of herbarium specimens and birds and scores of mammals were deposited in
the U, S. National Museum, Arnold Arboretum, and the Harvard Museum of Comparative
Zoology. Portions of his plant collections were sent to European herbaria for de-
terminations and duplicates are found there and in other American institutions.

His valuable Oriental library, once at the University of Hawaii, and at dif-
ferent times in storage or in transit, was eventually purchased by the University
of Washington for $25,000. Because of his outstanding contributions to the know-
ledge of western China through his numerous publications, he was appointed permanent
Honorary Research Associate at the University of Washington's Far East & Russian
Institute in 1954.

Increased interest in the establishment of a botanical garden in Hawaii even-
tually returned him to his beloved Hawaiian Islands. For a time he made his head-
quarters with his contemporary. Dr. Harold L. Lyon, Director Emeritus of the HSPA
Experiment Station. During his visit in 1953, he had prints made of Hillebrand's
types of Hawaiian plants. The following year he spent most of his time on the
island of Maui. In 1955-56 he botanized on Kauai and Hawaii, and 1956-57 oh Hawaii.

In December 1955 Dr. Rock was appointed Honorary Associate in Botany at the
Bernice P. Bishop Museum and later published four papers on new species discovered,
mainly in the Lobeliaceae . All of the Hawaiian specimens which he collected were
deposited in the Bishop Museum, as well as his Hawaiian collection note books, photo
graphs, and glass plates which he made 40 years ago. He, in turn, was given a copy
of his own out-of-print book. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands, for he
had none at this time.

During these later years he confined most of his botanizing to the "road-
side" category, taking advantage of the jeep roads built during World War ll. He
found that it was now easy to visit areas formerly inaccessible. He discovered
that many of the species with which he was familiar over 35 years ago had vanished
to extinction, remaining only as "dried corpses in the herbaria." Even though he
had been absent for a long period from Hawaii, he still knew the plants and where
they grew.

Rock was considered by many (,to be the "Father of Hawaiian Botany," whereas
his predecessor, Hillebr and, was the "Grandfather." His plant collections were pro-
lific, for he collected everyi^here and extensively in the Hawaiian native forests.
Duplicate specimens are at Arnold Arboretum, Gray Hetbarium, New York Botanical

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Garden, U. S. National Museum, and other herbaria. He described hundreds of new
species and varieties in his 56 publications resulting from his Hawaiian resi-
dence. He was considered the specialist of Hawaiian Pritchardia, Lobeliaceae,
and other native plant groups. To his Hawaiian intimates he was known as Pohaku ,
the Hawaiian word for Rock.

His linguistic ability was outstanding. German was his native language,
but as a youth he had learned Hungarian from his grandmother, and Chinese at the
age of 15 by self-study. He had taught Arabic at the age of 16 at the Vienna Uni-
versity. He was fluent in Italian, French, Spanish, Tibetan, Latin, Greek, and
the various languages of the aboriginal peoples of West China. He had a reading
knowledge and comprehension of Japanese, Hindi, and Sanskrit. When he visited
countries such as Iceland, he was able to quickly comprehend the language and con-
verse with the people. He spoke English without a Germanic accent.

Dr. Rock was a member of many organizations and received many awards. In
1930 Vienna University in Austria and Baylor University in Waco, Texas, awarded him
Doctor of Laws degrees, and in April 1962 the University of Hawaii honored him
with a Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa. He was awarded the Gold Medal by
the Royal Horticultural Society at the 200th anniversary celebration at Kew Gardens;
the Stanislaus Julien Award of the Institut des Belles Lettres by the Academie
Francaise, Paris, in 1948; and the Gold Medal by the American Rhododendron Society
in 1954. He was honorary life member of the National Geographic Society (1925),
Harvard Travellers Club, Rhododendron Association (London), and the North American
Lily Society; fellow of the American Geographical Society, Royal Geographical
Society (London) , and Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal; corresponding member of the
L'Ecole Francaise d' Extreme Orient, Hanoi (1938); member of the Royal Asiatic So-
ciety of North China, Botanical Society of America, Torrey Botanical Club, West
China Border Research Society, Washington Biological Society, American Primrose
Society, California. Horticultural Society, Seattle Rhododendron Society, and the
Alpine Garden Society. In Hawaii he was honorary member of the Hawaiian Botanical
Society, Friends of Foster Garden, and Hawaiian Botanical Gardens Foundation, Inc.,
and Honorary Chairman of the University of Hawaii’s Campus Beautification and
Landscaping Faculty Committee (1962-63). One of the University’s campus drives
is named Rock Road . He was listed in l^Jho*s Who in America for thirty years and in
the American Men of Science. In 1909 Forbes was the first to name a new species
in Rock's honor,, and today many hundreds of plants and birds bear the specific
name of Rockii . In 1913 Anton Heimrl established the genus Rockia, with one species,
R. sandwicensis (Family Nyctaginaceae) . This was done to distinguish Rock as a .
collector and because he collected the first, best, and sometimes the only specimeq
of the nexjly described taxon.

Shortly before his death he was in Europe classifying Na-khi manuscripts.

His two volume dictionary of the language is now in press, finally completed, in
spite of years of difficulties caused by forced evacuations, bandits and communists,
war, bombing, inflation, cholera and other illnesses, and the loss of his manu-
scripts. This dictionary is the culmination of his long years of exhaustive and
painstaking research of a culture almost entirely vanished from the rapidly chang-
ing scene of Asia.

He had suffered a heart ailment for several years and moved to Hawaii for
health reasons once more. He was stricken with a heart attack shortly after aris-'
ing on December 5, 1962, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lester Marks in upper
Nuuanu Valley, Honolulu. He had made his home with them since 1957. His green-
houses there were filled with native and exotic plants, including Hawaiian Lobelioids
which he had grown from seed. Some of the Hawaiian plants are for future planting,
on the Bishop Museum grounds. This year he donated 80 species of plants to the
University of Hawaii, adding further to the original campus tropical botanical gar-
den which he founded 50 years ago.

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 9 January 1963

Although for 40 years his interests lay mainly in western China, he con-
fessed to the writer last year that he would be delighted if anyone brought him
a Hawaiian Lobelioid. This was indicated by the last botanical paper published
before his death, entitled Hawaiian Lobelioids (B. P. Bishop Museum Occasional
Papers XXIII (5>: 64-75, August 17, 1962). That his heart still lay in Botany
was confirmed by his presence at the Hawaiian Botanical Society lecture (co-
sponsored with the Friends of Foster Garden, Hawaiian Academy of Science, and
Hawaiian Botanical Gardens Foundation, Inc.), "Plant Collecting in the Andes,"
ju"ht two days before his death. This expert on plant collecting in Hawaii and
China had planned to make a botany trip to the island of Hawaii two weeks later.

Pohaku was laid to rest with the plants he loved on December 10th, one
week after his last public appearance, in Nuuanu Valley's Oahu Cemetery.

— Acknowledgements ; The ^i/riter is grateful to Mrs. A. Lester (Loy) Marks for
her valuable informational and editorial assistance in the preparation of this
paper. Thanks for assistance are also extended to Miss Janet Bell of the Univer-
sity of ^Waii Library and to Dr. Roland W. Force, E. H. Bryan, Jr., and Miss
Margaret Titcomb bt the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.

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U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, and University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.

INVENTORY OF RQCX'S COLLECTIONS: The Editor is in the process of compiling the lo-
cation of Rock's collections of plants, mammals, and birds, and of his botanical
and ethnological manuscripts. Any information (amount, source, dates of collec-
tion or compilation,, etc.) would be appreciated. This inventory will be published
at a, later, date when all information has been received from the various institu-
tions concerned.

January 1963

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 10

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF J. F. R^CK-^

1909. A new Hawaiian Scaevola (S. Swezeyaha) . Bui. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 645-646,
fig. 1.

1909. A new Haxvfaiian shrub. Hawn. For. & Agr . VI (12): 503.

1910. Some new Hawaiian plants. Bui. Torrey Bot. Club 37: 297-304, figs. 1-5.

1911. Report of the Botanical Assistant. Hawaii, Bd. Commrs. Agr. & For., Rep.,

bien. per. end. Dec. 31, 1910; 67-88, pis. 10-22.

1911. New and noteworthy Hawaiian plants. Hawaii, Bd. Agr. & For. Bot. Bui.

1: 1-14, pis. 1-6 (with L. Radlkofer) .

1911. Notes upon Hawaiian plants with descriptions of new species and varieties.
Col. Hawaii Bui. 1: 1-20, pis. 1-5.

1911, A synopsis of the Hawaiian flora. Thrum's Hawn. Ann. (1912): 115-116.

1912, Mauna Loa on Feb. 17, 1912. Hawaii Vol. Obs., (first) rep.: 73, 1 pi.

1912, Indigenous trees of the Hawaiian Islands (Synopsis of a new forthcoming
“ book). Thrum's Hawn. Ann. (1913): 115-116.

1913. The ferns of Hawaii. Friend LXXI(2): 28-30, 40.

1913. List of tree seeds adaptable for planting in Hawaiian forests, with especial
adaptation to altitude, climate and soil conditions (In: Giffard, W. M.

Some observations on Hawaiian forests and forest cover in their relation
to water supply (pp. 28-47). Hawaii, Bd. Commrs. Agr. & For., Rep., bien.
per. end. Dec. 31, 1912: 44-47, pis. 2-5.

191^. Report of the Consulting Botanist. Hawaii, Bd. Commrs. Agr. & For., Rep.,
bien. per. end. Dec. 31, 1912: 95-99, pis. 18-20.

1913. (An account of the herbarium and a forthcoming book, ^:) Report of the De- ■
partment of General Science. College of Hawaii, Report of Bd. of Regents
to the Legislature of 1913. Col. Hawaii, Col. Rec. 9: 21-24.

*1913, The indigenous trees of the Hawaiian Islands, v -!- 518 pp., 218 pis. Honolulu
1913. List of Hav/aiian names of plants. Hawaii, Bd. Agr. & For., Bot. Bui. 2: 1-2Q.
1913i Descriptions of new species of Hawaiian plants. Col. Hawaii Bui, 2: 39-47,
pis. 9-12.

1913. Remarks on certain Hawaiian plants described by H. Leveille in Fedde Reper-

torium X. 10/14 (1911): 156-157. Col. Hawaii Bui. 2: 48-49.

1914. Revisio planatarum Hawaiiensium a Leveille descriptarum. Fedde, Rep. Spec.

Nov. Reg. Veg. 13: 352-361.

1915. Report of the Consulting Botanist. Hawaii, Bd. Commrs. Agr. & For., Rep.

bien. per. end. Dec. 31, 1914: 81-84.

1915. Vegetation der Hawaii- Inse In. Eng. Bot. Jahrb. 53(1-2): 275-311 (translated
by K. Krause) .

1915, A new Hawaiian Cyanea . Bui. Torrey Bot. Club 42: 77-78, pi. 8.

1915, (Report of) Systematic botany. College of Hawaii, Report of Bd. of Regents to

the Legislature of 1915. Col. Hawaii, Col. Rec. 12: 29-32.

1916, Palmyra Island, with a description of its flora. Col. Hawaii Bui. 4: 1-53,

pis. 1-20, 1 fig., 1 map (with 0. Beccari, A. Zahlbruckner , U. Martelli,

H. L. Lyon, and M. A. Howe) .

1916. Preliminary list of plants growing in Mrs. Mary E. Foster's grounds, Nuuanu
Avenue, Honolulu. Hawn. For. & Agr. 13(4): 113-123, pis. 1-4.

1916, Some plants of Hawaii. Mid-Pac. Mag. 11(6): 578-583, 3 figs.

1916, A new species of Pritchardia. Bui. Torrey Bot. Club 43: 385-387, pi. 21,
fig. 1.

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— Compiled by Alvin K. Chock, E. H. Bryan, Jr., and Mrs. Loy Marks.

* Books.

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January 1963

1916. The sandalwoods of Hai>;aii. A revision of the Hawaiian species of the genus

Santa lum. Hawaii, Bd. Agr . & For. Bot. Bui. 3; 1-43, pis. 1-13.

1917. Sandalwoods in Hawaii. Mid-Pac. Mag. 13(4): 356'*359, 3 figs.

1917. Report of the Consulting Botanist. Hawaii, Bd. Commrs. Agr. & For., Rep.,
bien. per. end. Dec. 31, 1916: 60-62.

1917. Notes on Hawaiian Lobelioideae, v/ith descriptions of new species and varieties
Bui. Torrey Bot. Club 44; 229-239, pis. 9-16. ,

1917. The ohia lehua trees of Hawaii. A revision of the Hawaiian species of the

genus Metrosideros Banks, x^ith special reference to the varieties and forms

of Metrosideros collina (Forster) A. Gray subspecies polymorpha (Gaud.)

Rock. Hawaii, Bd. Agr. & For. Bot. Bui. 4; 1-76, pis. 1-31.

1917. Revision of the Hax^7aiian species of the genus Cyrtandra, section Cylindro-

calyces Hillebr. Am. Jour. Bot. 4: 604-623, figs. 1-5.

*1917. The ornamental trees of Hax^7aii. v -I- 210 pp., 79 pis., 1 color pi. Honolulu.

1917. Hax^aiian trees a criticism. Bui. Tforrey Bot. Club 44; 545-546.

1917-18. Trees recommended for planting. Hawn. For. & Agr. XIV(ll): 331-337 (1917)

and Hawn. Pi. Rec. 18: 414-421 (1918).

1918. Pelea and Platydesma. Bot. Gaz. LXV(3); 261-267, 1 pi.

1918. Nexi7 species of Haxi/aiian plants. Bui. Torrey Bot. Club 45; 133-139, pi. 6.

1918. Cyrtandreae Hawaiienses, sect. Crotoncalyces Hillebr. Am. Jour. Bot.

5: 259-277, pis. 18-23.

1919. Cyrtandreae Hawaiienses, sections Schizocalyces Hillebr. and Chaetocalyces

Hillebr. Am. Jour. Bot. 6: 47-68, pis. 3-8.

1919. One government forest. Reserve lands at Kulani, Hawaii described. Hawn.

For. &Agr. XVI(2): 39-40, 3 pis.

*1919. A monographic study of the Hawaiian species of the tribe Lobelioideae,

family Campanulaceae. B. P. Bishop Mus. Mem. 7(2): i-xvi, 1-395, frontisp. ,
pis. 1-217.

1919. Report of the Consulting Botanist. Hawaii, Bd. Commrs. Agr . & For., Rep.,
bien. per. end. Dec. 31, 1918: 51-53.

1919. Cyrtandreae Hawaiiensis, section Microcalyces Hillebr. Am. Jour. Bot. 6:
203-216, pis. 29-32.

1919. The arborescent indigenous legumes of Hawaii. Hawaii, Bd. Agr. & For. Bot.
Bui. 5: 1-53, pis. 1-18.

1919. The, Hawaiian genus Kokia, a relative of the cotton. Hawaii, Bd. Agr. &

For. Bot. Bui. 6: 1-22, pis. 1-7.

1920. Poisonous plants of Hawaii. Hawn. For. & Agr. XVII(3); 59-62 and XVII(4):

97-101.

1920. The genus Plantago in Hawaii. Am. Jour. Bot. VII (5): 195-210, pi. 13.

*1920. The leguminous plants of Hawaii, being an account of the native, introduced,
and naturalized trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs belonging to the family
Leguminosae. Hawn. Sugar Pi. Assn. Expt. Sta. x -!- 234 pp., 93 pis.

1920. The forest of Mt. Gedeh, West Java. Hawn. Pi. Rec. XXII(2): 67-104, illus.
*1921. A monographic study of the genus Pritchardia. B. P. Bishop Mus. Mem.

8(1): 1-77, pis. 1-24, fig. 1 (x'/ith Odoardo Beccari) .

1921. The akala berry of Hawaii. Jour. Hered. XII(4); 147-150, 3 figs.

1922. The chaulmoogra tree and some related species. A survey conducted in Siam,

Burma, Assam and Bengal. U.S.D.A. Bui. 1057: 1-29, pis. I-XVI (with
David Fairchild and Frederick B. Poxi^er) .

1922. Hunting the chau Imoogra tree. Nat. Geog. Mag. XLI: 243-276, 39 pis., 1 map.

1923. Expedition to Tibet of the National Geographic Society. Sci., n.s. 58:460.

1924. Banishing the devil of disease among the Nashi: weird ceremonies performed

by an aboriginal tribe in the heart of Yunnan Province, China. Nat. Geog.
Mag. XLVI: 473-499, 26 pis., 1 map.

1925. Land of the yellow lama; National Geographic Society Explorer visits the

strange Kingdom of Muli, beyond the Likiang Snow Range of Yunnan Province,
China. Nat. Geog. Mag. XLVII: 447-491, 39 pis., 1 map.

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1925.

1925.

1926.

1928.

1928.

1929.
1929.

1929.

1929.

1929.

1930.

1930.

1931.

1931.

1933.

1935.

1935.

1935.

1936.

1936.

1937.
*1937.

1937.

*1939.

*1947.

Experiences of a lone geographer: an American Agricultural Explorer makes
his way through brigand-infested Central China en route to the Amne Machin
Range, Tibet. Nat. Geog. Mag. XLVIII: 331-347, 16 pis., 1 map.

Eield notes of the Rhododendrons collected by Rock in 1923/4, Rhpd. Assn.:

,151 pp. (with L. N. de Rothschild).

Through the great river trenches of Asia: National Geographic Society Explorer
follows the Yangtze, Mekong, and Salwin, through mighty gorges, some of
whose canyon walls tower to a height of more than two miles. Nat. Geog.

. Mag. L: 133-186, 47 pis., 1 map.

Life among the Lamas of Choni: describing the mystery and butger fes- ,

tival in the monastery of an almost unknown Tibetan principality in Kansu
Province, China. Nat. Geog. Mag. LIV: 569-619, 34 pis., 16 color pis., 1 map.

Field notes of Rhododendrons collected by Rock in 1925 and 1926. Rhod. Assn.:

17 pp.

Tlie voyage of the Luka to Palmyra Island. Atlantic Mo. 144(9): 360-366.

Choni - the place of strange festivals. 111. London News. 175 (4718) : 494-497 ,
520, illus .

A demon dance by Tibetan Lamas. 111. London News 175(4719): 530-531, illus.

Demon dancers of Choni. 111. London News 175(4719): 549-551, illus.

Butter as a medium of religious art: gods and "pagodas." 111. London News
175(4721): 636-639, illus.

Seeking the mountains of mystery: an expedition on the China-Tibet frontier
to the unexplored Amnyi Machen Range, one of whose peaks rivals Everest.

Nat. Geog. Mag. LVII: 131-185, 54 pis., 1 map.

Glories of the Minya Konka: magnificent snow peaks of the China-Tibetan border
are photographed at close range by a National Geographic Society Expedition.
Nat. Geog. Mag. LVIII: 385-437, 35 pis., 24 color pis., 1 map.

Konka Risumgongba, holy mountain of the outlaws. Nat. Geog. Mag. LX: 1-65,

36 pis., 43 color pis., 1 map.

Field notes of Rhododendrons collected by Rock 1929. Rhod. Assn.: 22 pp.

Land of the Tebbus. Geog. Jour. 81: 108-127.

Rock Rhododendrons. Supplement to the Rhododendron Association Year Book
1935; 202-245.

The story of the flood in the literature of the Mo-so (Na-khi) tribe. Jour.

W. China Border Res. Soc. VII: 64-80, pis. I-VII, fig. 1.

Sungmas, the living ofAcles .ol th'e Tibetan Church. Nat. Geog. Mag. LXVIII:
475-486, 1 pi., 12 color pis.

The origin of the Tso-la books, or books of divination of the Na-khi or Mo-so

' tribe. Jour. W. China Border Res. Soc. VIII: 39-52, 6 figs., 1 pi. •:

Hh-la or the killing of the soul as practiced by Na-khi sorcerers. Jour.

W. China Border Res. Soc. VIII: 53-58, 2 pis., 1 fig.

Nichols Mo-so manuscripts of the American Geographical Society. Geog. Rev. ■
27(2): 229-239, 4 figs. ,

Studies in Na-khi literature. I. The birth and origin of Dto-mba Shi-lo, the
founder of the Mo-so shamanism, according to Mo-so manuscripts. ,11. The'
Na-khi Ha zhi P'i, or the or ad the gods decide. Bui. Ecole Fran. Extreme-^
Orient 37(1): 1-119, pis. I-XLI. .

The birth and origin of Dto-mba Shilo, the founder of Mo-so shamanism, ac-
cording to Mo-so manuscripts. Artibus Asiae VII(l-4): 1-85, pis. 1-16.

Romance of Ka-ma-gyu-mi-gky; a Na-khi tribal love story translated from Na-khi
pictographic manuscripts. Bui. Ecole Fran. Extreme -Or lent 39(1): 1-155,
pis. I-XXXII.

The ancient Na-khi kingdom of southwest China. (2 vols.) Harvard- Yenching
Inst, Monograph Ser . VIII: i-xx, 1-274 pis. 1-152 and IX: 275-554, pis.
153-256, 4 maps.

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*1948. The Muan Bpo ceremony or sacrifice to heaven as practiced by the Na-khi.

Mon. Ser . XIII (1): 1-160, pis. I- IV. Jour. Orient. Stud. Gath. U. Peking.
(Reprinted in Mon. Ser. XIII (1948), Tokyo and Ann. Later. XVI: 9-158
(1952), Rome.)

*1952. The Na-khi Naga cult and related ceremonies. (2 vols.) Ser. Orient. Roma
IV(1): i-xi, 1-383, frontisp., pis. A-F, I-XXX and IV(2); i-xii, 384-806,
frontisp., pis. G-L, XXXI-LVIII. Is. M. E. 0., Rome.

1953. Excerpts from a history of Sikkim. Anthropos 48; 925-948, 1 pi.

1954. Some of the experiences of a plant hunter in China. Amer. Rhod. Soc.,

Quart. Bui. 8(3): 149-151, Ipl.

1955. The D'a Nv funeral ceremony with special reference to the origin of Na-khi

weapons. Anthropos 50; 1-31, 5 pis.

*1955. The Zhi-ma funeral ceremony of the Na-khi of southwest China. Stud. Inst.
Anthropos 9: i-xvi, 1-230, pis. 1-10. Vienna -Molding.

1956. List of Collectors' Numbers: Rock. Rhododendron Handbook 1956; 155-170.

Rhod . Gp . , Roy . Hor t . Soc .

*1956. The Amnye Ma-chhen Range and adjacent regions; a monographic study. Ser.

Orient. Roma XII: i-xi, 1-194, pis. I-LXXX, 5 maps. Is. M. E. 0., Rome.

1957. A new variety of silver sword. B. P. Bishop Mus. Occ. Pap. 22(4): 31-33,

fig. 1 (with Marie C. Neal).

1957. Some new Hawaiian Lobelioids. B. P. Bishop Mus. Occ. Pap. 22(5): 35-66,
figs. 1-14.

1959. Contributions to the shamanism of the Tibetan-Chinese borderland. Anthropos
54: 796-818, 6 pis.

1959. Some photographs from Dr. J. F. Rock. Am. Rhod. Soc., Quart. Bui. 13(2):
68-72, figs. 16-20 and 13(3); 136-139, figs. 35-40.

1962. Campus trees and plants. University of Hawaii. 28 pp., map. (with V. J.
Krajina and Harold St. John).

1962. A new Hawaiian Pritchardia. B. P. Bishop Mus. Occ. Pap. 23(4): 61-63, fig. 1.
1962. Hawaiian Lobelioids. B. P. Bishop Mus. Occ. Pap. 23(5): 66-75, figs. 1-5. ^

*1962-63. A Na-khi - English Encyclopedic Dictionary. (2 vols.) Ser. Orient. Roma
XXVIII: i-xliii, 1-508, frontisp., pis. I-XXVIII and XXIX: 1-589, frontisp.
pis. XXIX-LVII. (in press). Is. M. E. 0., Rome.

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 14

January 1963

A HERBARIUM

J. F. C. Rock

(Editor’s Note: The following report of the Herbarium of the College of Hawaii was
published as part of the report of the Department of General Science, in the "Report
of Board of Regents to the Legislature of 1913," pp. 21-24 (College Records No. 9,
Feb. 1913). Rock's report also included a synopsis of his book, "Indigenous Trees
of the Hawaiian Islands," which was published later that same year.)

Among the facilities of the department the herbarium occupies a place of great
importance, but one that requires some explanation in view of possible misconception.
An herbarium is a systematically arranged collection of authentically named dried
plants, and is highly essential for instruction and research. It is somewhat of the
nature of a museum, a laboratory and a library. As a collection or assemblage of
plant material it resembles the museum* It might be included in the laboratory as
an essential apparatus without which systematic work on plants is impossible, and as
illustrated literature it is a kind of library extremely useful for reference.

It is in the first place necessary that the herbarium should contain authen-
tically named specimens, as it is not always possible to recognize plants by the
brief descriptions which are sometimes published. in various languages. Illustrative
material 'is absolutely necessary to determine the plants of one's own environment
and to be able to recognize species new to science. The determination of plant
species ig by no means the sole factor in botanical work, but is of subsidiary im-
portance, An herbarium may be consulted for a particular specimen, the name . of which
may be known beforehand in order to compare its structure with other forms, or to
ascertain the relationship of an unknown plant.

The herbarium may be compared to a great illustrated volume, to the pages of
which the botanist refers daily in quest of information.. The administration of such,
an herbarium may be paralleled in the management of an office, as that of reg,istry
of deeds. -

The herbarium of the; College is not extended indefinitely beyond the border
lands of the Pacific, but comprises only such Floras as are closely related with the
Flora of these Islands. Only in a few cases it was found necessary. to have Floras,
such as of Mauritius and other islands having an insular Flora, for of island Floras
botanists distinguish two kinds, 'insular' and 'continental' Floras.

As research in Hawaii is not limited to certain fields of systematic botany,
as forest trees, but also is extended to grasses and pulces, it was found necessary
to make t]ie herbarium general in its scope, and it was desired that it should con-
tain all the lower Cryptogams, as well as Phanerogams, for purposes of instruction
and in order to give a general conspectus of the plants of these Islands. An herbar-
ium should be looked upon, not as a show piece or an accomplished task, but as a
growing and working mechanism that will return daily a large interest by way of in-
struction and research upon the capital invested in its establishment and maintenance

The major portion of this herbarium is that which came to the College as a
loan for an indefinite period from the Bureau (sic) of Agriculture and Forestry.

It being an impossibility to conduct such work without facilities for publi-
cation, it therefore may not be out of place to make a few general remarks regarding
such. The dissemination of knowledge about plants is the very essence of botanical
research activity. Unless the results of research are made known to the scientific
world through some precise announcement, they are of no value whatsoever.

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January 1963

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It is indeed of the greatest importance and advantage for an establishment of
this kind to control its own publication to the extent of at least one or two bullet-
tins , thus giving it the opportunity to express freely its individuality. I there-
fore recommend and urge this College to find means whereby we will be enabled to
publish at least one series of bulletins, which shall appear whenever there is mater-
ial on hand, either scientific or popular. By the freedom of exchange such contri- '
butions form the most useful and practical medium of communication between different
institutions of the world, and will help to promote and advertise, as well as make
the world acquainted with the work accomplished by the College in question. (The
College of Hawaii's Bulletin series, first published in 1911, was inaugurated with
one of Rock's papers. -- Ed.).

(The following is a resume of Rock's Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands,
which was in press at the time of the report -- Ed.).

The book deals exclusively with the native trees; that is, such as were orig-
inally found here by the first white men, leaving out all the trees found about town,
as they are of more or less recent introduction.

It was the writer's idea to present to the public a book which would give in-
formation on trees strictly Hawaiian in both technical and popular language. Many
times the writer heard the remark: 'But are there any native trees?' Yes, there are
over three hundred, and what is still more interesting, over 807o (over 94% now. --
Ed.) of them are not known from any other part of the world, but are peculiar to
this small group of islands. The book contains such information as cannot be found
in other x>7orks on the subject. Most of these works are exceedingly technical and
very expensive, and contain only fragments of Hawaiian botany, the rest being des-
criptions of plants from other parts of the world. There are a few lists of plants,
such as were published by Horace Mann and Heller, but these are only for the use of
experts. The best work on the Hawaiian flora was published by Dr. W. Hillebrand,
in 1888, well known to the kamaainas. It also is extremely technical and without
illustrations, save one showing the middle forest zone on Hawaii.

The book about to be issued contains 214 full-page illustrations, all of them
excellent half tones made by the Commercial Art Co., of San Francisco. Owing to the
great cost of the illustrations it was impossible to have each species of tree fig-
ured, and so the more important ones which the traveler might meet in the forests
of the various islands are illustrated. Most of the trees are figured three times,
showing the general aspect of the tree, the trunk showing bark characteristics, and
the third a flowering and fruiting branch of the tree from live specimens. The
descriptions are technical, giving also complete references to each species; ac-
companied by a popular description with all the native and common names, the uses
of the tree, its legends, whether used in religious ceremonies, medicinal properties,
etc., or other interesting feature" (sic) connected with the tree. Then follows a
complete description of its habitat, and where it can be found in the various
islands of the group.

The introduction to the book covers about 90 pages, giving a detailed de-
scription of all the floral regions and much ecological data. These pages are il-
lustrated by 27 half tones, showing the various typical forest zones on all the
islands from sea level to nearly 14,000 feet elevation.

The writer hopes that the volume will be of some use to all those who are
interested in this highly specialized flora of ours, and will help the novice to
learn to know the trees of Hawaii nei of which the old Hawaiians possessed a thorough
knowledge.

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 16

January 1963

AN anecdote concerning JOSEPH F. ROCK

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E. H. Bryan, Jr.-

In September 1919, my senior year at the College of Hawaii, I registered for
a course in systematic botany, which was to be taught by Mr. Rock. Being the only
student in the class, formalities were forgotten and I became a sort of laboratory
assistant, helping him sort specimens, look up references, mount plants and keep his
small work room in order.

Mr. Rock had a remarkable memory for detail. Because there were few cabinets,
book shelves and other working facilities, herbarium sheets and books were in piles

all over the room. However, Mr. Rock knew where everything was. A particular speci-

men of Plantago princeps from the bog on the summit of Mt. Eeke, Maui, was the fifth
from the top in the pile under the table in the corner. He gave the librarian strict

instructions not to rearrange the books when she came in to take inventory; if she

did, he wouldn't be able to find what he needed.

My diary entries indicate the intimate relationship between professor and stu-
dent. October 27, 1919: "With Mr. Rock to hear Mr. Judd's talk on forestry.” An-
other day, "Planned a monograph oia Pittosporum.” Another, "Copied Latin and German
descriptions from publications in Bishop Library," where I spent my afternoons and
Saturdays. I can trace the whole sequence in the preparation of the revision of the
genus Plantago.

Mr. Rock was as temperamental as a prima donna. If he were singing snatches
of grand opera in French, German, or Italian when he arrived in the morning, the day
would be a pleasant one. He was an excellent photographer. In making pictures of
herbarium specimens he used a very slow emulsion plate. He would cut down the dia-
phragm, open the shutter, and walk off to attend to other matters; in a minute or
so he would return, announce to himself that the shutter had been open long enough
and close it. The result almost always was excellent.

The feeling that Mr,. Rock was not happy with his position at the College of
Hawaii became very apparent. On November 26, 1919, my diary records our completion
of the paper on Plantago and "he says he is going to leave." Our method of work, was
for Mr. Rock to dictate the description of a species or variety- — his Latin was aa
fluent as his English- --hand me a pile of specimens and reference books and say,

"Now you put it in good form." In this way I learned much about systematic botany.

Anticipating that he was leaving the College of Hawaii and his extensive
collection of plant specimens, Mr, Rock decided that we should put the herbarium in
good order. To do this, he instructed me to write out a list of all the plant
families represented in Hawaii in their systematic order. .When this was done, we
took up one family after another; assembled all of the specimens and went over each
critically; I wrote on the data and identification as Mr. Rock dictated it to me.

It took the balance of the school year, from December to May. During Christmas
vacation I continued this v7ork, receiving 25 cents an hour, which was the current
wage for student assistants While Mr. Rock made a collecting trip to Kauai, dur-
ing January 1920, I kept on with the work; and upon his return, I mounted the speci-
mens he had collected. My diary records that he was off to Molokai on February 17;
and also to Hawaii in March. There is the record that we were describing I'palms"
on March 26, and shortly after that that he took the completed paper on Pritchardia
over to Dr. H. E. Gregory at the Bishop Museum, As a special reward, he took me to
dinner at the Young Hotel.

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—Curator of Collections and Manager, Pacific Scientific Information Center, B. P.
Bishop Museum, Honolulu 17, Hawaii. .....

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 17 January 1963

AN ANECDOTE CONCERNING JOSEPH F. ROCK (Continued from page 16)

Our final job, after we finished arranging and naming the Compositae, in April,
was to make a map of the University campus and record on it a number for every speci-
men of ornamental plant, listing the scientific name as dictated by Mr. Rock.

On May 25, 1920, he departed for San Francisco on his way to Harvard, and a
nev/ pattern of scientific activity, after having made such a valuable contribution
to the knowledge of the botany of the Hawaiian Islands.

It was some years after Mr. Rock's departure before any member of the Botany
Department took any interest in the herbarium. The wooden cabinets in which the
specimens were housed were not entirely insect tight and many specimens became badly
infested. After some little discussion and legislation, the Rock collection was
transferred to the Bishop Museum herbarium on June 17, 1922, and again I had the task
of going over the specimens and exterminating the little beetles and psocids. The
task brought back happy memories of a unique and interesting course in systematic
botany .

rock's "FRATERNITY" Many new species were described in J. F. Rock's botanical papers

published in 1957 and 1962. Some of the names of the new species complement the fol-
lowing botanical collectors who collected the type specimens; Mrs. A. Lester (Loy)
Marks, George McEldowney, L. William Bryan, Albert W. Duvel, A. Lester Marks, Alvin
K. Chock, Norman Carlson, Paul R. Weissich, and Thomas W. Lindsey. Many of these
assisted Rock on his collecting trips on the other islands.

PRITCHARDIA AT THE FOSTER BOTANICAL GARDEN One of the projects at the Foster Botan-

ical Garden is the cultivation of Pritchardia. The lou lu palm project was under the
guidance of Dr. J. F. Rock. When he returned to Hawaii in 1957, he, Paul Weissich,
and others began collecting seeds of the species which were not present in the Garden.
These collections resulted in some 20 different species and several varieties, which
are now growing in the Garden with able assistance from Collin Potter. The project
of securing more seeds (this is the only palm genus with endemic Hawaiian species)
is being continued by the Garden Director, Mr. Weissich.

NEW members

The following were elected to Society membership at the December meeting: Dr s . Duane
B. Moore and Peter P. Rotar, Department of Agronomy and Soil Science, University of
Hawaii; Dr. George W. Gillett, Turku University (after Sept. 1963: Department of
Botany, University of Hawaii); Dr. Jacques F. Barrau, South Pacific Commission; Noel
L. H. Krauss, State Department of Agriculture; and Dr. Warren H. Wagner, Jr., De-
partment of Botany, University of Michigan.

The total number of names presented by the Membership Committee in 1962 is now 51.
Sixteen were from the PQD, ARS, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 14 from the Univer-
sity of Hawaii; 9^, Experiment Station, HSPA; three each, B. P. Bishop Museum and
State Department of Agriculture; and one each, State Department of Health, U. S.
Forest Service, Punahou School, University of Michigan, Turku University, and South
Pacific Commission. The total number of members as of December 1962 is 197. (The
January-November 1962 membership figures were given on page 3 of the December 1962
issue.)

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 18 January 1963

FOSTER botanical GARDEN

Paul C. Hutchinson, Senior Botanist, University of California Botanical Garden, was
here last month for ten days. He served as consultant on the Lyon Botanical Garden
project in Koko Crater upon the invitation of the Friends of Foster Garden. Mr.
Hutchinson presented a preliminary report on the city’s botanical gardens system to
the Board of Trustees. Further amplification of his recommendations will be made
by him at a later date if it is necessary. Mr. Hutchinson has had over 15 years of
experience in botanical garden work and administration. He was the speaker at the
Society's December meeting.

BOTANICAL NOTES

Dr. Horace F. Clay? Associate Professor of Horticulture, University of Hawaii, will
present a lecture entitled, "Hawaiian Plants — ^-Then and Now," on Wednesday, Janu-
ary 23, at 7:30 p.m. This is one of the series of 75th Anniversary Lectures of the
Kamehameha Schools, and will be held at the Kam Schools Auditorium.

Dr. Harold St. John, Professor Emeritus of Botany, University of Hawaii, and Botanist,
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, sends the following summary of 1962 activities: "Africa was
so facinating that we did not get to Italy until mid-February 1962. Field collecting
of Pandanus ended; then began the study of museum specimens in Firenze, Geneva, Zur-
ich, Muenchen, Wien, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Lund, Uppsala, and Gothebdrg.

Our Volkswagen enabled us to see far more of Europe than we did in 1935 and 1950.

"At Muenchen, due to a stroke, Betty spent two months in the excellent univer-
sity hospital. Her recovery proceeds steadily. Thus, we have decided we can go to
Egypt for six months, where I will teach botanical nomenclature. From February to
June 1963 our address will be: Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo Univer-
sity, Giza, U. A. R.

"After June 1963 our address will be Istituto Botanico, Via Lamaroma 4,

Firenze, Italia."

Volume I of the New Zealand Journal of Botany will appear this year. It is published
by the Publications Office, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Box
8018, Wellington, New Zealand. The annual subscription is ■i, 1, 10 s.

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
FACULTY COMMITTEES (1962-63) ;

ARBORETUM Dr. Horace F. Clay (Chairman), Director of the H. L. Lyon Arbore-

tum, and Dept, of Hort.; Hugh W. Brodie, HSPA; Dr . Isa Degener ; Dr. Donald P. Gowing,
Asst. Dir., PRI; Dr. Richard A. Hamilton, Hort.; Robert L. Hind, Jr., Regent and
Mgr., Keauhou Ranch (Kona); Robert H. Hughes, Regent and Dept. Head, Hawn. Comm. &
Sugar Co., Ltd. (Puunene) ; Dr. Charles H. Lamoureux, Chairman, Dept. Botany; Dr . A. J.
Mangelsdor f , Genetics, HSPA; Henry H. Shigekane; Morrfs S. Shinsato, Regent and
Attorney, Lihue; W. M. Wachter, Admin. Vice-Pres.; Paul R. Weissich, Dir., Foster .
Bot. Gard.; and Dr. Willard Wilson, Provost.

CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION AND LANDSCAPING— -Dr . Joseph F. Rock ^onor§Ty-.Cliairm4v) ,
Hon. Assoc, in Bot., Bishop Museum (Note: Dr. Rock died on December 5, 1962);

Dr. Charles H. Lamoureux (Chairman), Bot.; Dr. Horance F. Clay, Hort.; James C. Hub-
bard, CES; Dr. Jimmie B. Smith, Chairman, Dept. Genetics; and Paul R. Weissich,

Foster Bot. Gard.

(Continued on page 1^

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 19 January 1963

UNIVERS_III of HAWAII (Continued from page 18)

FACULTY COMMITTEES (1962-63):

COLLEGE OF TROriCAL AGRICULTURE PUBLICATIONS— -Dr . Estel H. Cobb (Chairman) , -
Animal Sci.; Dr. Bruce J. Cooil (2nd semester). Botany & Plant Phys.; Mrs. Gertrude
P. Harrell, CES; Dr . Silas L . McHenr y , Poultry Sci.; Dr. Toshiyuki Nishida (1st sem-
ester), Ento.; Dr. Perry F- Philipp, Ag. Econ.; and Dr. Goro Uehara, Soils.

NUCLEAR SCIENCE COMMITTEE- -- Dr . James L. Brewbaker, Hort., and Dr. Maxwell S.
Doty, Bot. (Co-Chairmen); Raymond M. Chang, Physics; Dr. Robert L. Fox, Soils;

^ Dr. Sidney C. Hsiao, Zoo.; Dr. John J. Naughton, Chem. ; and Dr. Sidney J. Townsley,

Marine Zoo.

Dr. Cooil is also member of the RESEARCH COMMITTEE; Dr. Doty, of the HAWAII
MARINE LABORATORY ADVISORY BOARD and the ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO ASSIST WITH PLANNING
OF NEW FACILITIES FOR COCONUT ISLAND; and Dr. Leonard D. Tuthill, Asst. Dean, Graduate
School, and Asst. Dir. of Research is Chairman of the GRADUATE SCHOOL COUNCIL.

BOTANY SEMINAR (Botany 610): Every Thursday at 1:10 p.m., 203 Dean Hall. Jan. 10

George Fogg, "An analysis of variation between Pinus edulis and P. cembroides ;

Jan. 17---Dr. James A. Lockhart, "Water relations of plants." For further informa-
tion contact Dr. George Hollenberg.

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY & HORTICULTURE SEMINAR (Botany 675 & Horticulture 667): Every Tues-
day at noon, 301 Keller Hall (bring your sack lunch) . Jan. 8 T. Bezuneh, "Kinetin

structure and activity," and F. Aquilizan, "Inhibitors and seed germination";

Jan. 15 J. Kunisaki, "Growth inhibitors in plant competition," and Mrs. P. Pages,

"Inhibitors of auxin oxidase." For further information, contact Dr. A. Carl Leopold.

CITRICULTURE SEMINAR (Horticulture 711); Every Monday at 1:00 p.m., Henke Hall Con-
ference Room. Jan. 7 Dr. H. M. Mouat and Dr. J. Cam-eron, "Survey of minor element

disorders and fungus diseases of Citrus" ; Jan. 14 Dr. J. W. Cameron, "Citrus virus

indexing procedures"; Jan. 21 Dr. R. A. Hamilton, "Citrus rootstock practices in

Hawaii." For further information, contact Dr. Robert M. Warner.

Dr. Charles H. Lamoureux spent six days on Midway last month, collecting in all areas
of the atoll (both Eastern and Sand Islands) . He made observations about various
aspects of the atoll’s natural history, and plans publication of his research results
in the near future.

Dr. Maxwell S. Doty attended the annual meeting of the Western Society of Naturalists
at San Jose State College. He also participated in the National Science Foundation
Institute- conferences, sponsored by the Hawaii Marine Laboratory, which is seeking
ways to cooperative!}^ improve marine science instruction in non-oceanographic in-
stitutions in the Western States. The Institute last year distributed over 1200
; copies of a directory of institutions teaching marine sciences in the Western States

and will probably issue a second edition this year.

botanical VISITORS

Dr. Wataru Ishijima of Rikkyo University, Tokyo, was a visitor on the University of
Hawaii campus. While actually a paleontologist, he is an internationally recognized
authority on the builders of Pacific atoll rims, the coralline algae.

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 20 January 1963

SOTAN^CAL (Continued from page 19)

Dr. Jacques F. Barrau made a two-day stopover in Honolulu from Guam where he had con-
ferred about the economic development and plant introduction programs with the Guam
Department of Agriculture. Dr. Barrau is Executive Officer for Economic Development,
South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia, and joined the Society last month.

In Hawaii he conferred with personnel at the B. P. Bishop Museum, University of
Hawaii, and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Hawaii Area (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Ser-
vice) about the needs of the economic development program of the South Pacific Com-
mission. He left for Tahiti on November 29 and will visit the Atoll Coconut Ex-
periment Station in Rangiroa in the Tuamotus. The station is supported by the S.P.C.
and operated by the French Oceanic Institute.

Dr. Bryan Womersley participated in the U. H. botany faculty luncheon. He was re-
turning to Australia via Tokyo on the S. S. Himalaya after nine months on the main-
land. He did research at the University of Minnesota (three months). University
of British Columbia (two months), and Friday Harbor (six weeks). At the latter he
taught, and also made visits to other institutions on the mainland. Dr. Womersley,
Reader in Botany, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, was the Society's
speaker in February 1962.

HAWAIIAN SUGAR PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION

The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was held in Agee
Hall, HSPA Experiment Station, from December 4 to 6. Sessions on the opening day in-
cluded the President's Report by Mr . C . C . Cadagan (President, Alexander & Baldwin,
Inc.) and address by Senator Henry M. Jackson (Washington), and an Executive Session.
The sessions on the last two days were reports of the Experiment Station staff on
results for the year 1962. These included a digest by the Director, Dr. Leonard D.
Baver , and reports on sugar technology, pest control, sugar cane varieties, irriga-
tion, plant physiology, and fertilization.

The Sugar Research and Marketing Advisory Committee for the U.S.D.A. visited Hawaii
on December 15-17. This committee is composed of representatives from all aspects
(research, production, refining, and marketing) for the United States, both cane
and beet. Areas represented included Puerto Rico, Louisiana, California, Mid-West,
North-West, Western, and Hawaii. In addition to eight visits on plantations and
experiment substations, the committee listened to reports from all the Experiment
Station departments. Dr . L . D . Bayer , Experiment Station (HSPA) Director, is Chair-
man of this committee. Dr. James L. Lankford, USDA, is the Executive Secretary.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

(Items listed in this section are included in the botanical bibliography files of.,
the Pacific Scientific Information Center, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu 17,
Hawaii . )

BROWNLIE, G. (Oct.) 1962. Geographical relationships of New Zealand fern flora.
Pac. Sci. XVI (4); 363-365.

GILBERT, W. J. (Mar.) 1961. Pseudobryopsis oahuensis in Hawaii. Phycologia 1(1):
32-36, 2 figs.

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter -• page 21 ; January 1963

RECENT publications (Continued from page 20)

GILBERT, WILLIAM J. (Oct.) 1961. Codium phasmaticum Setchell in Hawaii. Trans.

Amer. Micros. Soc. LXXX(4): 433-434, 1 fig.

• . (Jan.) 1962. Contribution to the marine Chlorophyta of Hawaii, I

Pac. Sci. XVI(l): 135-144, 8 figs.

HAWAII. DIVISION OF FORESTRY, DEPT. OF LAND & NATURAL RESOURCES. (Jan.) 1962.

A multiple use program for the state forest lands of Hawaii.

50 pp., illus., map, tabs.

JACKSON, R. C. (Coordinator). (Oct.) 1962. A. S. P. T. index of current taxonomic

research no. 1, 28 pp. (mimeo.) Amer. Soc. of Plant Taxonomists
(c/o Dept, of Botany, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas).

MALCOLM, F. B. (July) 1961. Quality evaluation of Hawaiian timber. For. Prod. Lab.

Rep. 2226; 27 pp . , 14 figs ., 4 tabs .

NELSON, ROBERT E. 1961. Forestry potentials in Hawaii. A conservation challenge--

an economic opportunity. Pac. SW For. & Range Exp. Sta. (mimeo.)
4 pp. (consv. symposium, 10th PSC) .

I

. 1962. Forest products harvested in Hawaii: 1958 and 1960. Pac.

SW For. & Range Exp. Sta. misc. pap. 71: 3 pp. (mimeo).

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PICKFORD, GERALD D. 1962. Opportunities for timber production in Hawaii. Pac. SW

For. & Range Exp. Sta. misc. pap. 67.: 11 pp., illus.

ST. JOHN, HAROLD. (Oct.) 1962. Revision of the genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 13.

Pandanus in the Northern Territory, Australia. Pac. Sci.

XVI(4): 409-428, figs. 139B-149.

SKOLMEN, R. G. 1962 ^ Treating costs and durability tests of Hawaii-grown wood posts

treated by double-diffusion. Pac. SW For. & Range Exp. Sta.
res . note 198 .

, & HARVEY H. SMITH. 1962. Drying of silk-oak in Hawaii. Pac. SW

For. & Range Exp. Sta. tech. pap. 65: 12 pp., 4 figs., 3 tabs.,

STONE, BENJAMIN C. (Oct.) 1962. Studies in Hawaiian Rutaceae, II. Identity of

Pelea sandwicensis . Pac. Sci. XVI (4) : 366-373, 2 figs.

VAN STEENIS, C. G. G. J. (Oct.) 1962. The mountain flora of the Malaysian tropics.

Endeavour XXI(83-84): 183-193, 4 figs., 4 pis.

WARNER, JOHN N. (Oct.) 1962. Sugar cane: an indigenous Papuan cultigen. Ethnology
1(4): 4-5-411. (HSPA jour. 115).

directory changes

1) Additions :

BARRAU, DR. JACQUES F. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia; Anse Vata,
Noumea, New Caledonia; tel. (res.) 34-47; Executive Officer for Economic Development,
S. P. C.; Economic botany and ethnobotany of the Pacific Islands (Revision of the
New Caledonian Dioscoreaceae) .

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 22

January 1963

directory changes (Continued from page 21)

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1) Additions: r

GILLETT, DR. GEORGE W. (until Aug. 1963:) Botany Department, Turku University, Turku, n

Finland; (after Aug. 1963) Department of Botany, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 14,

Hawaii; tel. (bus. after Aug. '63) 992-051, ext. 369; Associate Professor of Botany,

UH; Biosystematics of flowering plants, cytogenetics, flora of volcanic regions (ex-
perimental study of variation in Phacelia (Hydrophyllaceae) .) .

KRAUSS, NOEL L. H. 2347 Parker Place, Honolulu 14, Hawaii; State Department of Agri-
culture, Honolulu 14; tel. (res.) 984-304, (bus.) 92-071; Entomologist (Exploratory),

State Dept. Agric.; Biological control of insects, snails, and weeds, and flora and
fauna of the Pacific Islands (Biological control of Lantana , Myr ica faya, wild black-
berry, puncture vine, hunting billbug, etc.).

MOORE, DR. DUANE G. Department of Agronomy & Soil Science, University of Hawaii,

Honolulu 14, Hawaii; 839 Kaipii Street, Kailua; tel. (bus.) 992-051, ext. 549,

(res.) 251-940; Assistant Professor of Soils, UH; Mineral nutrition and its effects

on plant ecology primarily, micronutrients (HAES projects on sulfur, copper and

molybdenum, and herbicides).

ROTAR, DR. PETER P. Department of Agronomy & Soil Science, University of Hawaii,

Honolulu 14, Hawaii; 204 Kaha Street, Kailua.

WAGNER, DR. WARREN H. , JR. Department of Botany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

Michigan; 721 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Ann Arbor; Tel. (bus.) 66-3-1511, ext. 2786,

(rds.) 66-3-2963; Professor of Botany and Curator of Pteridophytes , Herbarium, U.M.;

Vasctilar plant evolution, Pteridophytes of Hawaii (NSF proj . G- 10846, the phylo-
genetic characters of Filicineae, which includes work on Hawaiian ferns.).

2) Changes :

MENEZ, ERNANI G. Department of Biology and Botany, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver, B. C. Graduate student, UBC.

3) Deletions:

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ROCK, DR. JOSEPH F. (Honorary Member). - deceased.

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 23 January 1963

HAWAIIAN botanical SOCIETY
c/o Department of Botany, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 14, Hawaii

OFFICERS

President Dr. Maxwell S. Doty

(Dept. Botany, Univ. Hawaii )

Vice-President Oscar Kirsch

(Orchid Grower)

Secretary -Dr. Toshio Murashige

(Dept. Hort., Univ. Hawaii)

Treasurer 'William M. Bush

(Castle & Cooke, Inc.)
Executive Committee Members:

Dr. Charles H. Lamoureux (Dept. Bot.,
Univ. Hawaii) and Alvin K. Chock,
(PQD, ARS, USDA; B. P. Bishop Museum;
Dept. Bot., University of Ha^^aii)
Membership Committee: Dr. Louis G.

Nickell (Plant Phys. & Biochem. ,
HSPA) , chairman; Mr. Kalfred Yee
(Garden City, Inc.) and Dr. James
Brewbaker (Department Hort., U. H.)

editorial staff

Editor Alvin K. Chock

Assistant Editor Toshio Murashige

Reporters:

Charles H. Lamoureux (Bot., UH)

H. F. Clay(Hort., UH)
Robert W. Leeper (PRI)
Louis G. Nickell (HSPA)

The Hawaiian Botanical Society Newslet-
ter is published monthly, except during
the summer months of July, August and
September. It is distributed to all
Society members and other interested in-
dividuals and institutions, with the
purpose of informing them about botan -
ical news and progress in Hawaii and the
Pacific. News contributions and artic-
les are welcomed. The deadline for sub-
mission of news items is the 20th of
each month prior to publication.

' " - editor's notes

J . F . ROCK One of Hawaii's pioneer botanists died earlier last month. A biography

and other information are contained in this issue, which is dedicated to his memory.

A memorial fund has been established by the East-West Center, University of Hawaii.
Individuals desiring to contribute to the J. F. Rock Memorial Fund should contact
Dr . Alexander Spoehr (Chancellor) or his secretary. Checks should be made payable
to the East-West Center. A committee, representing the different botanical and
horticulturial organizations and institutions in Hawaii, is in the process of being
formed to administer and select the use of this Fund. (AKC)

MASTHEAD DESIGN: With the Newsletter becoming a permanent part of the Hawaiian Bo-
tanical Society, it was felt that Volume II and subsequent volumes deserved a more
attractive masthead. A new one was also necessary because the supply used for Vol-,
ume I was exhausted. The symbol selected for the masthead and stationary is Lobelia
gloria-montis, a species described by Rock in his 1919 monograph of the Lobelioids.
Thanks are extended to Dr . Otto Degener for permission to use the drawing in Flora
Hawaiiensis as the design. (AKC 6c MSD)

MOILIILI BEAUTIFICATION: The Moiliili Business and Professional Association is to be
commended for their encouraging the City & County of Honolulu to provide the potted
Melaleuca leucadendron. These plants are found along King Street in the Moiliili
shopping district makai of the University. It is our understanding that Mansfield
Claf lin, actually made the final selection of this tree, and that this implementation
Weissich ' s plan to increase the use of trees along Honolulu's streets is be-
ing put into effect. The Botanical Society hopes that other cities in Hawaii will
initiate tree planting programs whenever possible. (MSD)

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 24 January 1963

HAWAIIAN B 0 J A N I C A L S 0 C IE T

MEETING

TIME: Monday, January 7, 1963 - 7:30 p. m.

PLACE: Agee Hall, Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters V Association,

1527 Keeaumoku Street, Honolulu.

SUBJECT: "The Natural History of Midway Atoll.” (illustrated)

SPEAKER: Dr. Charles H. Lemoureux, Assistant Professor of Botany and Chairman,

Department of Botany, University of Hawaii. He is the society's retiring
president (1962) and a 1963 member of the Executive Committee. He will
present his Presidential Address this month because it was postponed in
order to give members an opportunity to hear Mr. Paul C. Hutchinson last
month. Dr. Lamoureux was on Midway last month, and visited other Leeward
Islands in late summer 1961, Some of his 1961 observations were published
in Atoll Research Bulletin.

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‘ NOTICE- 1963

The membership dues for the 1963 calendar year are payable on or before the first
meeting (Jan. 7) of the year. Please remit the sum of two dollars ($2.00) to the
Treasurer (Mr. William M. Bush, Castle & Cooke, Inc., P. 0. Box 2990, Honolulu 2,
Hawaii). Membership dues include receipt of the HAWAIIAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY NEWS-
LETTER.

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Membership applications and information may be obtained by writing to the Chairman
of the Membership Committee, Dr. Louis G. Nickell, HSPA Experiment Station, 1527
Keeaumoku Street, Honolulu 14, Hawaii.

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c/o Department of Botany
University of Hawaii
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