Feedback request: Verbascum thapsus (33489)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #360209

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum thapsus L. ("Great Mullein")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum thapsus L. ("Great Mullein")
Collected by:	Rev. George Sidney Streatfeild M P
Collection date:	8/1898
Locality:	Great Britain, VC40 Shropshire, Presthope, SO59, Limestone between Presthope & Much Wenlock
ex herb:	Dulwich College
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Documented by oldnick on 11^th March 2013.

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date	user	change
11/03/2013	oldnick	Deleted collector: G S S (G S S)
11/03/2013	oldnick	Added collector: Rev. George Sidney Streatfeild

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oldnick wrote

G S S likely to be George Sidney Streatfeild. Appears to be MP rather than MD or MT

[Roger Horton]

Almost certainly Streatfeild as he has another specimen of the same date from Presthope 326274 with his name in full. He has early collections in the herbarium of Augustin Ley where the handwriting looks similar.

His first specimen to date with Dulwich College ( 312917 ; which believe it or not is Teesdalia !!) dated 1890, has him as 'Vicar of Immanuel Church Streatham Common' only ~4km from Dulwich. According to the Wiki he was around London/St Albans until his death in 1921/2 - about the time that the strange handwriting ceases. Is he the writer of labels?!

I can find no record of him in the Dulwich College Register, though there are four pupils called Streatfeild, and one Streatfield.

[oldnick]

thanks v much!