Feedback request: Ulmus procera (24304)

[nacs12]

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Specimen #296339

Taxon:	Ulmaceae: Ulmus procera Salisb. ("English Elm")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ulmaceae: Ulmus procera Salisb. ("English Elm")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	20/5/1909 28/7/1909
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Ross on Wye, SO52, Springfield
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by nacs12 on 28^th April 2010.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
28/04/2010	nacs12	Deleted locality: Springfield
28/04/2010	nacs12	Added locality: GB VC17 Springfield
05/05/2010	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Springfield
05/05/2010	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC36 Ross on Wye, Springfield
09/07/2016	chrisu	Added collection date: 28/7/1909

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User comments about this sheet

nacs12 wrote

Any idea of VC?

[oldnick]

It is almost certainly Surrey, and Ley may have been visiting F W Ward there. But the process of deduction may not sound convincing. Using the menus (grey boxes on left, or links at bottom) you can search what else a particular person (ie Ley)collected on a particular date (or place from) which often reveals all, including accessing similar sheets for comparison; in this case he merely was in Surrey around this date; the collections from there ie Springfield Surrey (accessed via placenames menu) gave cultivated specimens collected by F W Ward, suggesting he lived there - I could have gone on to check out who he was etc...!

[David Price]

But Ley's label reads "Springfield, Ross" which is vc 36, Herefs.