Feedback request: Mentha aquatica (K001027283)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #376721

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Collected by:	E C J Devis
Collection date:	1/9/1876
Locality:	Great Britain, VC48 Merionethshire, Eden, SH72, Ditch
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027283
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by xmhcman on 25^th July 2014.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
13/09/2014	mossysal	Deleted collector: Dr Henry Francois Devis
13/09/2014	mossysal	Added collector: E C J Devis

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mossysal wrote

This is clearly NOT H F Devis and is earlier than any of that Devis's sheets [he would have been 14]. Perhaps his father? See also http://herbariaunited.org//forum/viewtopic.php?t=11106

[Roger Horton]

You're right! But ECJD seems to be using the same red-printed labels as HFD.

There are a few rather disconnected references to a person or persons called E C J Devis:

Listed BMJ 1879 in results and awards for University College London medical school.
Reported 1885 in Proc. US National Museum as collecting birds in Yucatan.
Patent filed 25 Nov. 1895 for 'Coin-controlled apparatus' with address in School Road, near Birmingham (this is on the edge of Kings Heath where HFD lived 1878, and perhaps in 1881 when he attended King Edward's School, Birmingham).

[Chris Liffen]

The father was Charles Walter Devis, born in Birmingham of a well connected family, studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, later the incumbent at the Rectory at Breame, Somerset, later Master Brewer ......

He seems to have emigrated to Queensland, where he 'reinvented' himself (C W De Vis) - and there is a fascinating account of his life and work in Australia in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 1916 Presidential Address for that year :
https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofroy1916roya#page/10/mode/2up

Edwin Charles John Devis and Henry Francois Devis were two of his sons.
Edwin was born 1856 in Breame, Somerset. Henry born in Salford in 1862

Edwin was a civil engineer, who left for New York on the Arizona (from Liverpool) in August, 1891. Seems that he died in the States in 1900 (Cleveland, Ohio)