Geoffrey Herklots
British botanist and ornithologist
About Geoffrey Herklots
Lived 1902 – 1986 (aged 83–84). Geoffrey Herklots was a British botanist, ornithologist and botanical collector.
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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Who was Geoffrey Herklots?
British botanist and ornithologist (1902-1986)
When was Geoffrey Herklots born?
Geoffrey Herklots was born in 1902.
When did Geoffrey Herklots die?
Geoffrey Herklots died on 14 January 1986.
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Geoffrey Herklots was a botanist, ornithologist and botanical collector.
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Geoffrey Herklots was British.
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