Name Geoffrey Herklots | Died January 14, 1986 | |
Books Vegetables in South-East Asia, Flowering Tropical Climbers, Vegetable Cultivation in Hong Kong | ||
Dr Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots (1902 – 14 January 1986) was a British botanist and 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.
Herklots is commemorated in the name of an orchid, Eria herklotsii Crib.
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