Feedback request: Ulmus campestris (41899)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #368527

Taxon:	Ulmus campestris L.
Filed in taxon folder:	Ulmus campestris L.
Collected by:	Daniel Sharpe
Collection date:	12/7/1826
Locality:	Great Britain, VC50 Denbighshire
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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collector's number:	24075
Filing note:	Ulmus campestris

Documented by oldnick on 28^th January 2014.

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oldnick wrote

D Sharpe and that handwriting again; name possibly written in J Woods' handwriting

[David Price]

Sharpe, Daniel (1806-56): born Marylebone, 6 Apr. 1806; died London, 31 May, 1856. Geologist. F.L.S. 1828; F.E.S. 1850.

Discovered Astrantia major at Stokesay Castle, 1840.

Also collected in Portugal; plants in Herb. Mus. Brit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sharpe

[Tom Humphrey]

Thanks, I've edited the entry to Daniel Sharpe

[Chris Liffen]

Also, an expert on Palaeozoic geology, published papers in Geol Soc London - particularly relating to Silurian rocks. Known to Darwin.