Frank Ludlow

Frank Ludlow ( born August 10, 1885 in Chelsea, London, † March 25, 1972 ) was an English botanist and Himalayan explorer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Ludlow ".

Life and work

Frank Ludlow was the son of a shopkeeper. He visited the West Somerset County School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In 1908 he gained at the University of Cambridge Bachelor of Arts degree in the natural sciences. During his studies, he took courses in botany with Professor Harry Marshall Ward, the father of the botanist Frank Kingdon -Ward. In the following years he taught at the College are in Karachi as Professor of Biology and proofreading in English. In addition, he held the post of vice- rector. During World War II he was stationed at the 97th Indian Infantry Regiment. In 1920 he became a member of the British Ornithologists ' Union. From 1923 to 1926 he taught at Gyantse school in Tibet. In 1927 he moved back to Srinagar, Kashmir, and undertook extensive research trips through the Himalayas including Tibet and Kashmir. In 1929 he met the botanist George Sherriff ( 1898-1967 ), with whom he made several botanical and zoological expeditions in the eastern Himalayas and in south-eastern Tibet 1933-1950. Ludlow and Sheriff discover several new Rhododendrontaxa and collected over 7,000 bird specimens that are now in the Natural History Museum. From 1942 to 1943 he was stationed as an officer of the British Mission in Lhasa. In 1949 he moved back to England and devoted himself in the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum of the description of plant taxa, particularly the genus Corydalis,

Ehrentaxa

After Frank Ludlow taxa are as ludlowii rhododendron, named Bhutanitis ludlowi and Alcippe ludlowi.