Feedback request: Gnaphalium uliginosum (24309)

[shaw30]

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Specimen #347802

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Gnaphalium uliginosum L. ("Marsh Cudweed")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Gnaphalium uliginosum L. ("Marsh Cudweed")
Collected by:	M.D
Collection date:	7/1894
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Mitcham Common, TQ26, wet ditch
ex herb:	Dulwich College
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Inferred details are marked.

Documented by shaw30 on 28^th November 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/11/2012	shaw30	Added collector: (M.D)
27/02/2016	oldnick	Deleted collector: (M.D)
27/02/2016	oldnick	Added collector: (M.D) [illegible]

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User comments about this sheet

shaw30 wrote

unknown initials on label

[Roger Horton]

Quite! Collectors from Dulwich rarely give names, instead providing difficult to read initials. Once you have put in Dulwich as the herbarium clicking or typing in the collectors box should give a list of clues. I would go for M D in this case (12+ instances already). Another common one is J H P.

[Roger Horton]

Please note that the databse will store collector 'M.D' separately from 'M D', I think the convention is not to use dots but to use spaces when dealing with initials. Sorry to be a bore.

[Tom Humphrey]

Thanks for mentioning the punctuation issue with names.

Although it can seem a minor point, it can make a huge difference to how efficiently the database can be search and names identified.

The other problem with the system's name matching is that entries consisting of surname and initials are not automatically expanded into full names. Wherever possible please pick names from the drop-down lists (provided of course the suggested name is correct) rather than leaving the name in an abbreviated form. Names entered into the system are either linked together (often including dates and other biographical information) or, if they cannot be matched, then they remain dissociated and much less usable.