Feedback request: Mentha aquatica (K001027250)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #377324

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Collected by:	Rev. Thomas Butler
Collection date:	9/1880
Locality:	Great Britain, VC40 Shropshire, Nobold, SJ41
ex herb:	Shrewsbury Public Library
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027250
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 9^th August 2014.

Checked by alex lockton

Edit history

date	user	change
09/08/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality:
09/08/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC40 Nobold
09/08/2014	oldnick	Deleted collector: N T Butler [illegible]
09/08/2014	oldnick	Added collector: T Butler [illegible]
21/08/2014	oldnick	Deleted collector: T Butler [illegible]
21/08/2014	oldnick	Added collector: Rev. Thomas Butler

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

Name ilegible - 'N T Butler'?

[Roger Horton]

I think the first word is Nobold, a place in Shropshire, OS SJ4710. For collector you then have the choice of T Butler, Canon T Butler, or Thomas Butler. All may be the same person!

[oldnick]

Thanks!

[Chris Liffen]

Thomas Butler 1806 - 1886
one time Canon of Lincoln.
Cambridge contemporary of Darwin of whom he wrote "He inoculated me with a taste for Botany which has stuck by me all my life".

[Roger Horton]

Thanks for the tip-off about Cambridge. I looked up Thomas Butler in the Cambridge Alumni Database and have added details to the Thomas Butler wiki.

[David Price]

It should be recorded that Butler's wife Fanny was the sister of Anna Worsley, a prominent amateur botanist who married Frederick Russell (q.v.).

Butler's son Samuel was an artist and writer (including on Darwinism) who is best known as author of 'The Way of All Flesh'.