Background
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles was born on January 13, 1884 in Vienna. Son of Francis and Francisca (Hofer) Rock.
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles was born on January 13, 1884 in Vienna. Son of Francis and Francisca (Hofer) Rock.
Educated Vienna Schoten Gymnasium and Vienna U. Doctor of Laws, honorary causa, 1930. Unmarried. Botanist Hawaiian Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 1908-1911, University of Hawaii, 1911-1919.
Professor systematic botany, 1919. Agricultural explorer with office of foreign seed and plant introduction, United States Department of Agriculture, since 1920.
Research professor in Oriental studies, University of Hawaii, 1938-1940.
Director National Geography Society Yünnan-Tibet Expedition, 1923-1924. Director Arnold Arboretum-Harvard University Botanical and Zöol. Expedition to West China and Tibet, 1924-1927, National Geography Society Southwest China-Tibet Expedition, 1927-1930.
Leader Zoöl. expedition, West China Museum Comparative Zoölogy, Harvard, 1930-1932, and University of California Yünnan-Tibet botanical expedition, 1932-1933.
Leader ornithol, expedition to Annam and Cambodia, United States National Museum, Washington, District of Columbia, 1940. Consultant United States Army Map Service, Washington, District of Columbia, 1944-1945.
Research Fellow Harvard-Yenching Institute since 1945. Formerly consulting botanist, Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, and member of advisory committee Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association Received Stanislaus Julien Award, Academic Francaise, Paris, 1948.
Director National; director Arnold Arboretum-Harvard University Botany. Consultant United States Army Map Service, Washington, District of Columbia, 1944-1945.
Fellow Royal Geography Society, American Geography Society, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India. Member Botanical Society America, Torrey Botanical. Club, Washington Biological Society, Royal Asiatic Society of North. China.
Member de l’Ecole Francaise d’Extrême Orient, Hanoi, Indochine, 1938.