Locke's main achievements

Joseph F. Rock l884- 1962+0962 arrived in the southwest of China on 1922, and spent the next 27 years of his life with Lijiang as his base camp. He collected plant and bird specimens in remote mountainous areas and took photos continuously. These activities all serve three authoritative organizations in the United States: the National Department of Agriculture, the National Geographic Society and the Institute of Botany of Harvard University. At that time, although he considered himself a botanist or an adventurous botanist, with the passage of time, he changed from studying plants to studying Naxi people, and he was full of enthusiasm for people living and working around him. However, with the transfer of this research field, he never published an article about the plant community in western China, which he devoted himself to.