Feedback request: Plantago major (38442)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #364184

Taxon:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago major L. ("Greater Plantain")
Filed in taxon folder:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago major L. ("Greater Plantain")
Collected by:	Hugh Neville Dixon Harold Goodman Dixon
Collection date:	3/6/1877
Locality:	Great Britain, VC29 Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, TL45, A garden in the Avenue
communicated:	Leslie Beeching Hall
ex herb:	Hugh Neville Dixon
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by portwild on 28^th June 2013.

Edit history

date	user	change
12/10/2013	xmhcman	Added collector: Mrs H (Anne) Dixon
14/10/2013	xmhcman	Added provenance: comm Leslie Beeching Hall
21/10/2013	xmhcman	Deleted collector: Mrs H (Anne) Dixon
21/10/2013	xmhcman	Added collector: Harold Goodman Dixon

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xmhcman wrote

Hugh Neville Dixon was 16 years old at the time of this collection, but his brother Harold Goodman Dixon was two years older and about to join Cambridge University but without joining a college. It is possible that he lived with their maternal uncle, Neville Goodman (BA 1866; MA 1869), who, as a Nonconformist, was ineligible for a fellowship, but was coaching students in natural sciences at the time and who devoted himself to natural history, and who made entomological collections. Neville Goodman's home was in Brooklands Avenue. Perhaps this is 'the avenue' referred to here. I have changed the second collector from 'Mrs H Dixon' (who had died in 1864) to 'Harold Goodman Dixon' so as to create another collector in the database to be the second 'H' in 'H & HD', along with Hugh Neville.