RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v 22 D. LINDSAY RIDE DAVID, J. Ferdinand DAVIES, Joseph DE VOGEL, Emile Willem Eugene DANIELL, Edmond Murray DENSON, Thomas A. DINNEN, John ++ DRINKER, Sandwith DUDDELL, Frederick DUDDELL, Harriet DUFF, Daniel DUNCAN, George H. DUNCAN, J. George DURANT, Euphemia DYER, Samuel ++ + J ייי ייי E. ELLIS, William tr ENDICOTT, Fidelia Bridges ENDICOTT, James Bridges ENDICOTT, Rosalie ENGLE, Isaac E. + EVANS, William Thomas Bowen F. FEARON, Elizabeth FITZGERALD, Edward FRASER, Sir William FRENCH, Maria Ball FORBES, Thomas T. FORREST, Andrew ... G. GANTT, Benjamin GILMAN, Agnes GAILLARD, Helen Baptista GANGER, Charles F. +r. GILLESPIE, Elizabeth McDougal ++ rr GOVER, Samuel +++ GRAHAM, Charles GRIFFIN, John P. H. HADDON, Elizabeth Lewis +++ Fr - HAMILTON, Lewis HARRISON, George W. HAVELOCK, William HAWKINS, Charles HICKMAN, Washington F. HIGHT, John Francis + HIGHT, Matthew James HOOKER, James +++ + J - r + ++ T 125 L 130 L 25 U 97 L LL+ 5 U + 17 U + 39 U 27 U - +++ 21 U + 138 L 14 U 48 L J -- 111 L 146 L --- 9 U 33 U 165 C 34 U 73 L J 10 U + 84 L 132 L 62 L J 26 U 56a L 123 L 32 U 77 L + J 6 U 92 L 30 U + 53 L J ++ 66 L 64 L rrr +++ 28 U TH - 72 L rrr L 103 L T rrr rtr 47 L H TH ++ FFF 51 L 18 U + 102 L 118 L + + 139 L 149 L 110 L + J TI 57 L + 137 L --- J + 20 U HOWARD, Jane L. ILBERY, Frederick ILBERY, Louisa INNES, James J. JPLAND, Christian + JPLAND, Christian Johann Friedrich JONES, Henry +4 L + 16 U 3 U ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v 32 LINDSAY RIDE LOWER TERRACE — Cont'd. No. Name Sex Row Age Date of Death Nationality 109. REES, Maria F Crockett Group 35 27 Dec. 1836 Br. 110. ILBERY, Frederick M Crockett Group 19 23 Nov. 1833 Br. 111. DURANT, Euphemia F Crockett Group 26 13 July 1834 Br. 112. KINSMAN, Nathaniel M Crockett Group 48 30 April 1847 Amer. 113. SUTHERLAND, Isabella F Crockett Group 31 25 May 1836 Br. 114. ZEEMAN, Bernardus M Churchill Row 54 22 July 1821 Dut. 115. URMSTON, George B. M Churchill Row 8/12 20 May 1813 Br. 116. CAPPER, Cawthorne M Churchill Row 30 14 Jan. 1844 Br. 117. WISHART, John Key M Churchill Row 33 2 Nov. 1843 Br. 118. HIGHT, James M Churchill Row 27 6 Sept. 1843 Br. 119. McCARTHY, Robert M Churchill Row 39 17 Aug. 1843 Br. 120. MORGAN, William M Churchill Row 40+ 14 July 1843 Br. 121. BATEMAN, James M Churchill Row 29 ... Br. 122. LARKINS, Henry M Churchill Row Adult 30 March 1843 Br. 123. FORREST, Andrew M Churchill Row 43 19 Jan. 1843 Br. 124. MARQUIS, William M Churchill Row 42 ... ... 125. DAVID, J. Ferdinand M Churchill Row Adult 4 Dec. 1842 Amer. 126. MARTIN, Robert Francis M Churchill Row 42 25 Oct. 1842 Br. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1976 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/hq382988q LAND AND RIVER ROUTES TO WEST CHINA 167 gorges are the Wushan, Witches' Mountain, and Windbox Gorges, which provide some of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring river scenery in the world. There are places where the river is only 150 yards wide, where the passenger on a steamer has the feeling that the almost sheer precipices actually overhang the river. The cliffs in Windbox Gorge are 700 feet high, and it was here that the record rise in the river level of 275 feet once took place. Above Wanhsien the valley of the river opens out, and navigation to Chungking and beyond is comparatively simple. Until the Szechwan Steam Navigation Company's second steamer, Shuhun, went into service in 1914, steamers on the Yangtze, like junks, required trackers to pull them up the most powerful rapids, and a unique feature of the Upper Yangtze was the trackers' paths cut in the hillside thirty or forty feet above the river level. At these places junks were often lightened of their cargo and passengers before negotiating the rapid. In the year after the Swinhoe expedition the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce supported another expedition up the Yangtze and into Szechwan by the famous German explorer Baron von Richthofen. His report on Szechwan is the most important until then, being the first to include an accurate description of the famous Red Basin of Chengtu, and its legendary irrigation system. This basin, with an area of some 3,500 square miles, is the only large area of level ground in the whole province, and has a population of about six million. Its remarkable fertility is due to the irrigation system introduced by Li Ping in the third century B.C. Li led the Min River through a hill and distributed its waters over the wide plain through a network of canals. Other notable journeys in Szechwan and West China between the late 1870s and early 1900s, included those of E.C. Baber and Sir Alexander Hosie of the China Consular Service, Archibald Little of Upper Yangtze fame, and A.E. Pratt, the zoologist. Pratt's travels lasted three years from 1887 to 1890. He built his own boat at Ichang to take him through the Gorges and past Chungking to Kiating, from where he journeyed overland to the sacred Mount Omei, over 11,000 feet high. Pratt's travels deserve to be better known, as they were the first in West China to be undertaken for purely scientific purposes. He blazed the trail for the later journeys of the botanists George Forrest, Kingdon Ward, and E.H. Wilson. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/rx919b522 107 FIELD, A D 26.10.1882 FIELD. Frederick 8.8.1932 Arthur FINNICKE, Harry J 17.7.1906 FINNICKE, Robert J 17.11.1905 FISHER, Robert 25.4.1893 FITZPATRICK, 18.7.1951 Christine FITZPARTICK, Suzanne 18.7.1951 FORREST, John Haslem 23.3.1947 FLUGS, Berthold 3.6.1914 FOTHERMIGHANI, 1.5.1918 FRASER, Harry Frame 5.12.1932 David FREI, Robert 31.10.1901 Sommerville FREIDRICH, Rudolf 25,12,1881 FROST, Theresa L 13.7.1894 FYFE, Jane Charlotte 19.10.1883 GALBREATH, Jean 26.10.1918 Abergromby GIBSON, Richard Mends 16.11.1865 McBride McQueene GIBSON, John Hayton 26.1.1932 GILBERT, George 17.4.1912 GOEBEL, Karl H 30.1.1945 GILCHRIST, Maggie Wtson Brand GOETTE, Karl Joseph 7.7.1902 21.12.1906 GOLDENBERG, Issac Not known GOTH, Charles 1.11.1878 GRAHAM, Charles 1880 GRATTIS, L (child of) 7.8.1881 George GROTH, Adolph Alex Not known GRUENBERG, Moses 17.1.1883 Erdmann Joseph GRUENBERT, Joseph 2.6.1882 GRUMBACH, Henry 7.12.1904 GRUPE, Henriette 31.8.1882 GRUPE, Bodo 27.7.1873 GRUPE, Herta 20.5.1873 GUTHEREZ, Edel 24.10.1883 HAFTENDER, John 21.6.1869 HAIR, John 9.11.1941 Wroughton HALFON, Jose 1919 HALL, James L 1.3.1936 HANDE, C 9/10.1882 HANSARDUM, 7.7.1903 Johannes L HANSON, Mary 10.2.1963 HARE, Frederick 24.3.1872 HARRISON, John James 28.2.1947 HAUSMANN, J Not known HAWKES, Esther 22.4.1910 HAWKINS, Ronald 5.4.1948 HAYWARD, Sydney 12.8.1918 HEARD, William D 3.12.1909 Malcolm Crosswell HEDDERWICK, Donald 15.8.1909 HEELOZ, Heinrich 6.1.1878 Ness HEDGES, J Blake 5.2.1941 HENS, J Ph 5.6.1889 HENTRICH, Theodor 13.10.1912 HERALD, Hugh 11.12.1898 Dietrich HERBE, Sydney HESLOP, Mrs Fred 16.12.1902 Not known HERRIDGE, James HICKEY, John Vincent + 11.11.1945 Russell 17.4.1946 HIGHAM, F James 25.1.1945 HINDE, John B 11.2.1926 HIRAMOTO, O 26.9.1908 HIRAMOTO, Baby Not known Katsu HOFFMEISTER, Carl 25.6.1913 HOLDEN, LE 16.5.1924 Heinrich Hubert HOLLOMBY, Bettina 29.3.1926 HOLLYER, William 9.12.1944 George HOMANN, August Emil 8.8.1926 HOMBURG, G 7.3.1890 HONISS, Albert 3.8.1874 HOOPER, Ralph 28.5.1899 Wemyss ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2001 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zg651950g 357 FRIENDS OF THE HKBRAS TRIP TO CORNWALL KIRSTY NORMAN In April 2002, 25 members of the Friends of the RAS Hong Kong Branch took part in the group's first Monday-Friday organised tour, thanks to the excellent teamwork and organisation of Anita Wilson, Rosemary Lee and Penny Byrne. The group visited six gardens in eastern Cornwall, in order to look specifically at oriental planting, and the connections between Cornwall and the early plant hunters. Given the county's place in the history of early oriental plant introductions, there are many gardens to choose from, but in this choice we were fortunate to have the help of the remarkable Maggie Campbell-Culver, author of the recently published and well received The Origin of Plants and previously in charge of the gardens at Mount Edgcumbe, and also her husband Michael Culver. Both had become close friends of Penny Byrne and her husband Tim Heald while neighbours in Fowey. Maggie's love of her subject, and her instinctive ability to strike a balance between educating us and allowing us to roam made her a very popular guide and companion. The group met in Fowey on the Monday, visited two gardens a day for three days, and dispersed on the Friday. The trip also included that essential of a Friends outing, good Chinese food, in the form of two fine dinners organised by Penny. Gardens visited were Trewithen, Pine Lodge, Tregrehan, Heligan, Caerhays, and also the Eden Project, though Eden is perhaps more of a phenomenon than a garden. The great Cornish gardens we now know were, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the testing grounds for what was to become a veritable torrent of newly discovered plant material, much of it being brought or sent back from China, Japan, Korea and the Himalayas. The way was paved by men like Major General Thomas Hardwicke (1755-1835) of the Bengal Artillery, who brought the first Himalayan rhododendron to Britain in the early 19th century. Discoveries were made by missionaries such as Père Armand David and Père Jean Delavay in the late 19th century, but it was in the early 20th century when professional explorer-collectors such as Ernest Wilson, George Forrest, Frank Kingdom Ward, and Reginald Farrer began systematic ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2001 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zg651950g 362 which once made up Gondwanaland, with tree-ferns massing in the stream bed. It seems that the entire world is coming eventually to Cornwall. Tom's in-depth knowledge of the flora of western China in particular was illuminating for us. He explained that whereas much emphasis is put in the protection of rainforests internationally, in fact small "islands" of temperate conditions and vegetation within the tropics, where unique species exist, are also vulnerable: a single fire, for instance, could break the growth cycle for trees. Collection of seed is of great importance, but Chinese taxonomy is underfunded (compared to botanical research for medical purposes) and collection for propagation abroad is illegal according to CITES. Another of his legacies to the future will be a naturalistically planted Far Eastern temperate woodland, with acers, viburnums, sorbus, gordonia, and the rare Taiwania. Tom also delighted and surprised the group by being able to take us to see a specimen of the camellia named after HK Governor Alexander Grantham, and another of Camellia hongkongensis, plus a Hogplum (Choerospondias), which he said grows around reservoirs in Hong Kong. Full marks for being the only garden visited to have a direct Hong Kong connection, and to Tom for his thoughtfulness in pointing it out. Among great gardens, that of Caerhays Castle is one of the greatest, particularly for oriental plants. The gardens are set spectacularly on a hillside cupped around the castle, with their back turned to the little beach and bay nearby and the sea winds, and are filled with some of the oldest specimens of rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias in England. The architect of the gardens was John Charles Williams, “one of the towering figures of the Edwardian age” (M. Campbell-Culver). By the time he died in 1939, he had the best collection of rhododendrons in the country, and he had been responsible for crossing for the first time the two most important types of camellia, C. japonica (from Japan) and C. saluenensis. The latter had been discovered by George Forrest in the early part of the 20th century in the Salween area of China, and Williams was an early recipient of seed. The resulting hybrids, C. x williamsii, are now some of the most highly regarded of all, being hardy, profusely flowering, and tidily shedding their dead blooms. 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