Appendix
Alan Clark’s Plant Hunting Expeditions:
1990 – Bhutan – Keith Rushforth (leading), Alan Clark, Ian Sinclair, Bitigus Kinmonth, Tom Hudson, Anne Chambers, Stephen Fox and Patrick Forde.
Collection Numbers CS001 (AC001) to CS357 (AC357).
The Expedition took place whilst Alan was Garden Curator at Leonardslee Gardens, West Sussex. The Expedition Report was written-up by Ian Sinclair for the IDS 1991 Yearbook.
1992 – North West Vietnam – Alan Clark (leading) and Bill Moyles.
Collection Numbers AC358 to 519.
1993 – Yunnan – Keith Rushforth (leading), Alan Clark, Tom Hudson, Patrick Forde, Thomas Pakenham, Brendan Rosse, Peta and Vin Burton Smith, Maurice and Rosemary Foster, Tony and Daphne Weston, Paul Bonavia and Ivor Stokes. Organiser Gaun Kaiyan (Director) Kunming Institute of Botany.
Collection Numbers AC520 to AC816.
1995 -Yunnan – Alan Clark(leading) with Hilton Calverlay, Peter Colles, John Nichols, James Taggart and Colin Thackeray. Organiser Guan Kaiyan (Director) Kunming Botanic Institute of Botany.
Collection Numbers AC817 to AC1330.
1996 – Yunnan – Alan Clark (leading) with Stefan and Christine Bump, Peter Colles, Ivo Fullagar, David Kinsman, John Nichols, Seamus O’Brien, Sean O’Gaoithin, Nigel Price, Christine Reay and Elizabeth Redmayne. Organiser Gaun Kaiyan (Director) Kunming Botanic Institute of Botany.
Collection Numbers AC1331 to AC3121.
1997 – South East Tibet – Alan Clark (leading), Ralph Millward and Ian Marsoner.
Collection Numbers AC3122 to AC3705.
1998 – Sichuan – Alan Clark (leading), Amanda Cullen, Peter Colles, Ivo Fullager, John Nichols and Christine Reay.
Collection Numbers AC3706 to AC4243.
1999 – Sichuan, Guizhou and NE Yunnan – Alan Clark (leading) and Amanda Cullen.
Collection Numbers AC4244 to AC4250.
2000 – Date and Province to be confirmed – Alan Clark (leading) and Amanda Cullen.
Field Notes not found to date.
Collection Numbers AC4251 to 4335.
2000 – Tibet – Alan Clark (leading), Amanda Cullen and Ralph Millward
Collection Numbers AC4336 to AC4621.
2001 – Sichuan and Chongquig – Alan Clark (leading) and Amanda Cullen
Collection Numbers AC4770 to AC5009.
2002 – Sichuan, Hubei, Guangxi, and Guizhou – Alan Clark (leading) Jane Brazendale, David Hixon and Ann Sowerby.
Collection Numbers AC5010 to AC5086.
2003 – Date, Province and Alan Clark’s companions to be confirmed. Field Notes not found to date.
2004 – North East India & Arunachal Pradesh – Alan Clark (leading) and Jane Brazendale.
Collection Numbers AC5248 to 5612.
2006 – North West Vietnam – Lao Cai and Lai Chau – Alan Clark (leading), Jane Brazendale, Vaughan Gallavan, John Hamblin, Sandra Stockly and Marlene Storah.
Collection Numbers AC5613 to AC5693.
2007 – Sichuan and Yunnan – Alan Clark (leading), Norman Godfrey, Shelagh & Keith Newman.
Collection Numbers CN5742 to CN6183.
2008 – Yunnan – Alan Clark (leading), Shelagh & Keith Newman and Hannah Wilson.
Collection Numbers CNW1 to CNW1290.
2009 – NE Vietnam – Alan Clark (leading), Hannah Wilson and Jamie Taggart.
Collection numbers CWT 6185 to CWT 6508.
Notes: This is the first occasion that a list has been collated for publication and the details are not available elsewhere. The list has been compiled from Alan’s own rhododendron documentation that has been bequeathed to the R.S.C.G., but they do not contain copies of Field Notes for all his expeditions. So, details from copies of Field Notes that Alan sent to Ian Sinclair and the Author have been used to produce an overall list.
The 2024 Fall Issue of the ARS Journal that contains the article ‘Alan John Clark: An Appreciation’ was published without including the above list. Unfortunately, the ARS Editor, who never forwarded a copy of the draft article to be backchecked, decided not to include the detailed listing of Alan’s seventeen plant hunting Expeditions, which had been specially researched and collated as these details have never been published and were intended to be a useful point of reference for those International ARS members who have raised Alan’s seed.