Feedback request: Briza media (150709_362)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #299372

Taxon:	Poaceae: Briza media L. ("Quaking-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Briza media L. ("Quaking-grass")
Collected by:	Arthur Wallis
Collection date:	1836
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Springfield, TL70, Springfield 'in silvis' [ie in woods?]
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-24906
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Documented by oldnick on 25^th May 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
24/07/2010	oldnick	Deleted note: 'lu silvis'
24/07/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC18,VC19 Chelmsford, Springfield
24/07/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC18,VC19 Chelmsford, Springfield 'in silvis' [ie in woods?]
15/08/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC18,VC19 Chelmsford, Springfield 'in silvis' [ie in woods?]
15/08/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC19 Springfield, Springfield 'in silvis' [ie in woods?] TL70 (place)
15/08/2011	oldnick	Added collector: Arthur Wallis

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oldnick wrote

Collector - that person from Chelmsford area again with his (strange) Latin habitats - I haven't been able to identify him. Update: could the collector be Anthony Wallis, who collected around Chelmsford - I have not found an example of his handwriting, though a specimen of his is http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/210199/
An address by him on the flora of Chelmsford is in Procs Bot Soc London p34; http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TFsCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=proceedings+botanical+society+london&source=bl&ots=oA5oLshwBE&sig=Y9pTadhH8_66fZLuoHmBSHV2MLU&hl=en&ei=wQFGTKPgDpXNjAe40dH0Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Chris Liffen]

The following may be relevant
Arthur Wallis
Born Springfield - 18th June 1816, mother Mary Ann Wallis (nee Marriage), one of 8 children; father Abraham (Quaker family, records in The British Friend; the sheets have Quaker notation for date].
Mother died in 1836.

Contributed "A catalogue of some of the rarer plants growing in the vicinity of Chelmsford" Proc of the Botanical Society of London, Vol 1

and "A catalogue of the Orchidae of Essex" Annals of Natural History, Vol 4.

The 1851 records Arthur Wallis as living in Brighton (2, Bartholomews), the census indicates that he was a printer / bookseller.

[oldnick]

Dear Chris thanks very much for that! Could Arthur Wallis be got onto the collector menu? And is Anthony Wallis (the elder) also an Essex collector as indicated by the menu? I wondered if you had found Arthur W named on a sheet, with or without his handwriting, as these Chelmsford specimens are regularly coming to light & cannot be definitely assigned to a collector.

[Chris Liffen]

Have sent private message
Chris