Feedback request: Verbascum pulverulentum (K001014615)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #373528

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum pulverulentum Vill. ("Hoary Mullein")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum pulverulentum Vill. ("Hoary Mullein")
Collected by:	Alban Edward Lomax ?
Collection date:	7/1899
Locality:	Great Britain, VC27 East Norfolk, Hellesdon, TG10
ex herb:	Mr George Valentine Chapman Last
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001014615
Image: © Kew

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Documented by oldnick on 14^th May 2014.

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oldnick wrote

A E Lomax died 1894 (and E A Lomax died 1895), he collected one other Norfolk specimen, in 1881; and Last had some of his specimens. Evidently this label is wrongly dated, or h@h has his dates wrong

[Chris Liffen]

Alban Lomax was a pharmaceutical chemist. He died (aged 33) in the Northern Hospital (from 'cerebral inflammation'), Liverpool - 4th may, 1894.

He described a new species of Cerastium, J of Botany, Vol 31, 1893.

He was a member of the Watson Exchange Club and contributed to Science Gossip.

Father was Ebenezer W Lomax - second master of Ely Grammar School.