Feedback request: Persicaria maculosa (39918)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #365683

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Persicaria maculosa Gray ("Redshank")
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Persicaria maculosa Gray ("Redshank")
Collected by:	William Robert Sherrin
Collection date:	9/1897
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, London SW, Waste places
ex herb:	William Robert Sherrin
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Documented by xmhcman on 15^th December 2013.

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xmhcman wrote

Another of Sherrin's 'Waste places SW', so London SW assumed.

[David Price]

I looked at Sherrin's specimens for the period August to October 1897 and wonder whether he may have intended 'S W' (also written S-W) to mean South Wimbledon.

[oldnick]

2 such are labelled 'NHM' which made me think Nat Hist Museum eg http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/312898/?image of 6/1899

[Chris Liffen]

For interest

Up until 1895, he ran a taxidermy shop in Ramsgate.
Then, he became an articulator in the Zoology Dept of BM - now NHM
in 1919 - he went part time in order to work as Curator at SLBI (mornings at Museum, afternoons at SLBI)
1928 he transferred to the Botany Dept (to work on Mosses)
stayed i/c moss collection until 1947

Full biography :

http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/learning/bryohistory/Bygone%20Bryologists/WILLIAM%20ROBERT%20SHERRIN.pdf [pdf]