Feedback request: Thalictrum minus (2187)

[John Hewitt]

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Specimen #313694

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Thalictrum minus L. ("Lesser Meadow-rue")
Other name:	Thalictrum majus det. Donald Peter Young
Filed in taxon folder:	Ranunculaceae: Thalictrum minus L. ("Lesser Meadow-rue")
Collection date:	1820
Locality:	Great Britain, Norfolk, Norfolk
ex herb:	Robert Russell Hutchinson Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Sir John Joseph Bennett
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by siandef on 22^nd January 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
28/01/2011	petracapensis	Added notes
28/01/2011	petracapensis	Deleted collector: Dr D P Young
05/04/2011	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb Dr Jean Irene Byatt
05/04/2011	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb I J B
05/04/2011	tom humphrey	Added determiner: Dr D P Young
05/04/2011	tom humphrey	Added determiner's note: as Thalictrum majus
18/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added determination (det): Thalictrum majus
18/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted note: Determination by Dr D P Young
18/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner: Dr D P Young
18/01/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted provenance: exherb I J B
18/01/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added provenance: exherb Sir John Joseph Bennett
18/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added determiner: Donald Peter Young
18/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner's note: as Thalictrum majus

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User comments about this sheet

hewitt.j.h@bt wrote

I query the Ex Herb Jean Irene Byatt for this sheet. More likely to be referring to the I.J.B(ennett?)on sheet .John Hewitt (SLBI). P.S. Likely to be J.J. Bennett

[Chris Liffen]

Agree with John.
J J Bennett was one of the contributors to the herbarium at SLBI; it is likely that I J B is simply a 'curatorial' typo and should read J J B - for Bennett.
Chris

[Tom Humphrey]

I agree about it not being Byatt.

There are two other I J B SLBI sheets, both also ex Hutchinson and Croydon NHSS. I wonder if the handwritten I J B is not a mistake - you probably are right that it is Bennett, but possibly it may be worth waiting in case more sheets turn up.

[Chris Liffen]

Fine.

[oldnick]

'Sister' sheet http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/315775/ shows more certainly as J J Bennett, and the error has been similarly corrected on some other sheets; the collector is also given there, as Mr Curtis. Although the name is familiar to me, and is presumably John Wright Curtis, I can't say - 'Most of the lectures were given by John Wright Curtis, William's younger brother, who had just gained his doctor's degree from Edinburgh University. They were both keen naturalists, and William's special interest in geology was complemented by John's interest in botany and ornithology' - http://www3.hants.gov.uk/curtis-museum/alton-history/curtis-museum-story.htm - if this is correct, there are 19 Curtis sheets that should be re-edited. The handwriting on the 'sister' sheet may bear comparison with http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/274621/?image which is one of 8 'John Wright Curtis' sheets