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George Forrest (botanist)
George Forrest (1873–1932) was a Scottish botanist, who became one of the first explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country.
==Early life==
Forrest was born in Falkirk, Scotland on 13 March 1873. He went to Kilmarnock Academy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.plantexplorers.com/explorers/biographies/forrest/george-forrest.htm )〕 On leaving school, he was apprenticed with a local chemist until 1891 when, on the inheritance of a small legacy, he decided to travel to Australia,〔Charles Adams, Mike Early, Jane Brook and Katherine Bamford〕 where he searched for gold and also worked on a sheep station before returning to Scotland in 1902. Forrest's life then took a most unexpected turn; caught in a shower while fishing the Gladhouse Loch in Tweedsdale, he sought shelter beneath an overhanging bank where he chanced upon an ancient stone coffin. The discovery led to his introduction to Professor Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, who offered him a job in the Herbarium.〔 Whilst Forrest doubtless found the indoor work dull, it was to provide an excellent preparation for his explorations. A year later, Balfour recommended Forrest, now aged 30, to Liverpool horticulturist and cotton broker Arthur Kilpin Bulley, who was sponsoring an expedition to southwestern China in search of exotic plants, particularly species of rhododendron, of which Yunnan has many.〔Lyte, C. (1983). ''The Plant Hunters''. Orbis Publishing, London. ISBN 9780856134180〕〔Julia Brittain〕
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