was an Australian botanical illustrator
Worked as principal contributing artist to Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1950 to 1981. Between 1958 and 1983 she produced more than 400 watercolour drawings for the magazine.
The Alpine Garden Society headquarters are at Pershore, Worcestershire. It is an "International Society for the cultivation, conservation and exploration of alpine and rock garden plants, small hardy herbaceous plants, hardy and half-hardy bulbs, hardy ferns and small shrubs".
The society was founded in 1929. Sir William Lawrence, who was at the time the treasurer of the Royal Horticultural Society.
It publishes a quarterly journal, now titled The Alpine Gardener for those with less experience or time and enthusiasts.
Made several expeditions to SE Tibet and Bhutan to collect plants with Frank Ludlow between 1933-1949.
George Sherriff funded virtually all his expeditions himself and, as well as collecting, took thousands of photographs. He was one of first plant collectors to send specimens in crates back by air to Kew, Edinburgh and Wisley and his best plant introductions were rhododendrons, primulas, and peonies.
George Sherriff attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and fought in the First World War in France in 1918, where he was gassed. In 1919 he was sent to India and served on the north-west frontier.
In 1927 he was appointed British vice-consul in Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan and while there travelled widely.
In 1929 he met Frank Ludlow and their shared interests in ornithology, travel and plants started a lifelong friendship.
During the 1930s & 40s they went on a series of plant and bird collecting expeditions working eastward along the main Himalayan ranges. In 1933, for example, they travelled to Tibet, Nang-kartse, Gyantse and back to India making 500 gatherings of plants and seeds; their collections included 69 species of rhododendron, 15 new to science.
Sherriff resumed his military service during the Second World War, first in Assam and later in Sikkim and in 1943 he succeeded Frank Ludlow in charge of British Mission in Lhasa. After the war he continued collecting in south east Tibet, again with Ludlow.
In 1949 both retired from India and went a final expedition to Bhutan to gather alpine and temperate flora.
On retirement Sherriff bought an estate near Kirriemuir in Angus where he grew many Himalayan plants with great success. In his later years he served in the Home Guard, on the county council and as session clerk of his local church.
Sources: Dictionary of National Biography; R. Desmond ‘Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists; obituary folder; H.R. Fletcher ‘A Quest for Flowers’. D.W.
Chinese botanist. Pu-Chiu Tsoong was an authority on the Chinese Scrophulariaceae and edited two volumes (67(1) and 68) on the family in Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae.
Collected between 1935-1954.
He collected plants in Anhui in 1935 with Tchen-Ngo Liou and later made a number of excursions in the Tsingling Range of Shanxi Province, among other expeditions.
A Bhutanese Princess, the only daughter of the first king of Bhtuan, Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuk and the first queen consort of Bhutan, Tsundue Pema Lhamo (1886-1922).
Commonly known as Ashi Wangmo, she was a Bhuddist poet, and composer.
Hon. Local Secretary (1964) of The Alpine Garden Society, Birmingham Group:
42, Lozells Street
Birmingham, 19