Feedback request: Dactylis glomerata (K001063856)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #374874

Taxon:	Poaceae: Dactylis glomerata L. ("Cock's-foot")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Dactylis glomerata L. ("Cock's-foot")
Collected by:	J Milne
Collection date:	22/6/1857
Locality:	Great Britain, VC81 Berwickshire, Saint Abbs, NT96, Roadside near Number 116., (altitude 250ft)
ex herb:	Thomas Birch Wolfe Museum of Natural History, Ipswich
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001063856
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	118
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by larry28025 on 15^th June 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
12/09/2014	chrisu	Deleted note: Herb.Hort.Bot.Reg.Kew. Thomas Birch Wolfe Herbarium, on permanent loan from the Museum of Natural History, Ipswitch, 1952.
12/09/2014	chrisu	Deleted provenance: comm (Ipswich Museum of Natural History)
12/09/2014	chrisu	Deleted collector: J Milne
12/09/2014	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb J Milne
12/09/2014	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb Thomas Wolf
12/09/2014	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb Thomas Birch Wolfe
12/09/2014	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb (Museum of Natural History, Ipswich)
12/09/2014	chrisu	Deleted collection date: 22/6/1957 - 22/6/1957
12/09/2014	chrisu	Added collection date: 22/6/1857
12/09/2014	chrisu	Added collector: J Milne

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chrisu wrote

anyone recognise the collector?

[Roger Horton]

The signature matches two others taken as 'J Milne'.

[Chris Liffen]

There is a Joshua Milne FLS, who died 1851

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Milne
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Milne,_Joshua_(DNB00)

details of his work / botanical interests etc. Actuary and "said to have possessed one of the best botanical libraries in London" - interested in Mosses and hepatics.



and there is J Milne, who was a gardener at Fonthill, Wilts in the early 1800s.
Also John Milne (floreat 1890's) a seedsman in Montrose.

There was also a Thomas Milne, who was sometime Curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden in the late 1700's.

[Roger Horton]

Linnean Soc. obituary, 24 May 1851, pages 136-137:

[oldnick]

Confusing that the date on the label is 1857, whereas J Milne above died 1851. His 2 other specimens are dated 1856 and 1857. Wolfe lived 1801-80.

[Roger Horton]

h@h now has several collectors who could be 'J Milne':

1: 'J Milne' with 3 records all at Kew, fl:1856-1857, of whom Kent & Allen comments "Edinburgh:1955"!
2: 'James Milne' 14 records all at Edinburgh fl:1955-1960 (not in K&A)
3: 'James Fairweather Milne' no h@h records, fl:1910-1965 (K&A: specimens in National Museum Wales)
4: 'Joshua Milne' no h@h records 1776–1851 (not in K&A)
5: 'Dr Milne' 11 h@h records all at Edinburgh fl:1953-1985 (not in K&A)*

* A Dr J. Milne is in members list of BSBI Proceedings 1956.

Perhaps the records for 1 should be associated with 2 and vice versa, and the records for 5 should be added to 2.