Feedback request: Najas marina (28563)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #256517

Taxon:	Najas marina L. ("Holly-leaved Naiad")
Filed in taxon folder:	Najas marina L. ("Holly-leaved Naiad")
Collected by:	E Bennett Mr Arthur Bennett
Collection date:	21/7/1883
Locality:	Great Britain, VC27 East Norfolk, Hickling Broad, TG4122
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
notes:	Passing through Deep Dike into Whitesley we took the channel near the keeper's house to Hickling Broad, and exactly at the spot marked 'B M 4-6' on the Ordnance map, my daughter at the bow of the boat brought up a lot of aquatics in the drag. Giving a good 'Hallo' and making the boat rock considerably, I knew we had the new British plant.

Assimilated from an external database by BIRMherb.

Edit history

date	user	change
19/05/2015	oldnick	Deleted determination (orig): Najas marina
19/05/2015	oldnick	Added determination (orig): Najas marina
19/05/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC27 Hickling Broad TG4122
19/05/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC27 Hickling Broad TG4122
19/05/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted collector: Mr A Bennett
19/05/2015	oldnick	Deleted collector: Miss M Bennett
19/05/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added collector: Mr Arthur Bennett
19/05/2015	oldnick	Added collector: E Bennett
19/05/2015	oldnick	Replaced number: BIRM.tpd.temp.1893

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oldnick wrote

Arthur Bennett has several sheets of this species collected same date some naming 'M Bennett' presumably daughter, and some E Bennett, presumably Mr Edward Trusted Bennett?

[David Price]

Arthur Bennett had three daughters, one of whom may have been E Bennet.

There is no evidence to suggest Arthur Bennett ever collected with E T Bennett.

E T Bennett and A W Bennett were the sons of William Bennett and wholly unrelated to Arthur Bennett.

[oldnick]

Thanks - I wondered about that. Pity we haven't managed to get info on more collectors' pages. I tried a couple of times and couldn't get my entry to save.

[David Price]

Quite a number of collectors now have an entry on H@H wiki and don't forget C Liffen's meiosis.org.uk. A surprising number of botanists have entries on mainstream Wikipedia &/or ODNB or may be found by Googling.

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi Nick,

Could you let me know what went wrong when you tried to add information to a collector (and whether you were editing the collector entry or a wiki page) as I wasn't aware that there were problems with this.

thanks,

Tom

[Chris Liffen]

According to the census return of 1891, the Bennett family had 7 daughters
as follows

Emma 23
Annie 21
Ada 19
Lily 18
Elizabeth 16
Nellie 12
Rosa 8

Chris

[oldnick]

Dear Tom - only a brave man would try to understand my ability to muddle up IT things. In the past I've tried to enter (probably useless) information on 'wiki: View/edit additonal information about xxxxxxx in the herb@home wiki'.
What I should have been using was 'message board: discuss this botanist entry on the message board '. For some reason perhaps Freudian, I can sometimes see this heading, sometimes not