Jean Rasmussen formerly Jean Kingdon-Ward née Macklin (27 January 1921 – 3 December 2011) was a botanist, botanical collector, explorer and writer who participated in five major expeditions in India and Burma. She collecting numerous scientific specimens of plants, some of which were new to science. The species '' Lilium mackliniae'' was named in her honour. Rasmussen wrote about her expedition to the Lohit river valley on the border of

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Taman ...

and her experiences with the 1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake during that expedition in her book ''My Hill So Strong''.

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