Rock was also a cartographer. Some maps of his are available here, chopped in to sections. I have glued the Lijiang map together, and it is available as a single, large image (~2MB) here.
For additional information about the final (largest) group of images, or to receive permission for use, please contact the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain MA 02130 or by e-mail hortlib@oeb.harvard.edu. You can visit the South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity web site to learn more about Joseph Rock as well as current research in the region.
For more information on Rock's character, check out his colleague
Peter Goullart's book, Forgotten
Kingdom.
Rock's Naxi Manusript collection was purchased by the American Library of Congress, who have digitised
a selection of the manuscripts and put them online.
A couple of additional photographs by Rock were also available on that
site, and have been added below as the second group of two photographs.
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