Feedback request: Saxifraga cernua (5211)

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Specimen #258682

Taxon:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga cernua L. ("Drooping Saxifrage")
Filed in taxon folder:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga cernua L. ("Drooping Saxifrage")
Collected by:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
Collection date:	8/1851
Locality:	Great Britain, VC88 Mid Perthshire, Ben Lawers, NN64, Ben Lawers, Breadalbane, Perth
communicated:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	actual flower

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by lowfatspread on 5^th May 2008.

Checked by tom humphrey

Specimen #258683

Taxon:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga cernua L. ("Drooping Saxifrage")
Filed in taxon folder:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga cernua L. ("Drooping Saxifrage")
Collected by:	Robert Moyes Adam
Collection date:	13/9/1919
Locality:	Great Britain, VC88 Mid Perthshire, Ben Lawers, NN64, summit of ben lawers. "natural size" - unfortunately not refernce size or details of camera position, film/light conditions etc.
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	photgraphed by Robert M Adams, Royal Bot. Gardens Edinburgh and implies he/they retain the copyright. there is also a note (in pencil) which implies the photograph is ligthly glued to the paper with a quarter inch margin.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by lowfatspread on 5^th May 2008.

Checked by tom humphrey

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date	user	change
05/05/2008	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: Robert M Adams
05/05/2008	tom humphrey	Added collector: Robert Moyes Adam
05/05/2008	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 13/9/1919

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lowfatspread wrote

This page contains a Photograph with a copyright indication.
it is not clear at which date the photgraph was taken.
if the photgraph is from 1851.. its possible that it is of historic significance.
How should photographs or drawings be treated?

[Tom Humphrey]

Thanks for posting about this.

There is a Robert Moyes Adam (1885-1967) listed in Kent & Allen. Part of his photographic archive, including this photo is held at St Andrews.

I've updated the date to reflect the information from the archive.

Where as in this case a photograph or drawing has locality information it's worth recording as a 'specimen' with additional info in the notes field, as you have done.

regards,

Tom.
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