experiment. However, Rock developed a real affection and admiration for the Nakhi, who he tended to see as a comparatively unspoiled people, and in the later years of his time in China repeatedly declared his wish to live out his life in Lijiang. Legacy In 1913, botanist Anton Heimerl published Rockia,which is a genus of flowering plants from Hawaii belonging to the family Nyctaginaceae, it was named in Joseph Rock's honour. Also, a number of plant species are named after Rock, including the Hawaiian endemic species Brighamia rockii of Molokai and Peperomia rockii; at Palmyra Atoll, the Pandanus Rockii , the spectacular Rock's Tree Peony, Paeonia rockii, from the Gansu mountains, and the yellow-berried mountain ash Sorbus rockii . In March 2009, the University of Hawaii at Manoa named its herbarium, which he had founded and developed, in his honor. Rock's former residence at Nguluko (Yuhu) village has been made into a museum in his memory. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) discovered Rock's work on the Nakhi in the 1950s and incorporated various details into the late sections of his enormous long poem, The Cantos, as well as mentioning Rock himself: “And over Li Chiang, the snow range is turquoise / Rock’s world that he saved us for memory / a thin trace in high air.” Works For a complete bibliography of Rock's published works (during his lifetime), see Chock (1963). Major writings include: Hawaiian flora: The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands (1913). Honolulu. The Ornamental Trees of Hawaii (1917). Honolulu. The Leguminous Plants of Hawaii (1920). Honolulu. Expeditions in Western China and National Geographic Magazine articles: "Hunting the Chaulmoogra Tree" (1922) 3: 242–276. "Banishing the Devil of Disease Among the Nashi: Weird Ceremonies Performed by an Aboriginal Tribe in the Heart of Yunnan Province" (1924) 46: 473–499. "Land of the Yellow Lama: National Geographic Society Explorer Visits the Strange Kingdom of Muli, Beyond the Likiang Snow Range of Yunnan, China" (1924) 47: 447–491. "Experiences of a Lone Geographer: An American Agricultural Explorer Makes His Way through Brigand-Infested Central China En Route to the Amne Machin Range, Tibet" (1925) 48: 331–347. "Through the Great River Trenches of Asia: National Geographic Society Explorer Follows the Yangtze, Mekong, and Salwin Through Mighty Gorges" (1926) 50: 133–186. "Life among the Lamas of Choni: Describing the Mystery Plays and Butter Festival in the Monastery of an Almost Unknown Tibetan Principality in Kansu