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734 Hartmut WALRAVENSwere able to interpret the manuscripts, and the clock was ticking, so tospeak.Rock was excellently qualified for his enterprise:– As a scientist he was fact-oriented– He studied and described the habitat– He studied and translated the historical records in Chinese and Tibetan– He interpreted the Naxi mss. with the help of dtombas– He documented what he saw in excellent photographs. 9 We owe hima large number of pictures of the Naxi, their environments and culture. Healso shot a few short movies.– He managed to interest other people and institutions in Naxi culture,e.g. Harvard University, Library of Congress and Johannes Schubert 10in Leipzig. 11The present writer became interested in Rock when he looked at Rockmaterial in some depositories around the world. As the authoritative list ofhis publications was hidden in the Newsletter of the Hawaiian BotanicalSociety 12 , a quick decision led to a volume of Rock materials, includinga revised bibliography. A volume on Rock’s trip to the Amnye Machhenfollowed, and since then the Austrian Academy of Sciences supported thepublication of two volumes of Rock correspondence. 13 The next project9See the exhibition catalogue: Michael Aris: Lamas, princes, and brigands: JosephRock's photographs of the Tibetan borderlands of China. With the assistance of PatrickBooz, and contributions by S.B. Sutton and Jeffrey Wagner 1992, New York: ChinaInstitute in America. 144 p. (Review in Monumenta Serica 41. 1993, 400-401).101896-1976, Librarian and later professor at Leipzig University. See EberhardtRichter: Johannes Schubert (1896-1976). Namhafte Hochschullehrer der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig 5. 1984, 66-74, portrait; H. Walravens: Briefwechsel JohannesSchuberts mit Ernst Schäfer und Bruno Beger. NOAG 175-176. 2004, 165-224.11Johannes Schubert 1949, Na-khi Piktographie. Buch und Papier. Leipzig,114-142; Siegbert Hummel 1960, Die Bedeutung der Na-khi für die Erforschung dertibetischen Kultur. Monumenta Serica 19, 307-334. – Virginia Harrison (later: deZayas) in Heronmere (USA) acquired about 4,000 mss. from Rock.121963, 10-13.13See: H. Walravens: Joseph Franz Rock (1884-1962) – Sammler und Forscher.Eine Übersicht. Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz 29.1992, 241-260.Revised version:Joseph Franz Rock (1884-1962). Sammler und Forscher. Eine Übersicht. OE 38.1995,209-237.Joseph Franz Rock (1884-1962): Berichte, Briefe und Dokumente des Botanikers,Sinologen und Nakhi-Forschers. Mit einem Schriftenverzeichnis. Stuttgart: FranzSteiner Verlag 2002. 452 p. (VOHD Supplement. 36.)Joseph Franz Rock: Expedition zum Amnye Machhen in Südwest-China im Jahre 1926.