Geoffrey Herklots
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1902 – 1986
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Who was Geoffrey Herklots?
Dr Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots 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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- Born
- 1902
- Also known as
- Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Jan 14, 1986
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on July 23, 2013
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