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[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #281621

Taxon:	Iridaceae: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill ("Spring Crocus")
Other name:	Crocus officinalis Hudson.
Filed in taxon folder:	Iridaceae: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill ("Spring Crocus")
Collected by:	J B Morrel
Collection date:	3/1887
Locality:	Great Britain, VC56 Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, SK54
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Crocus purpureus

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 1^st November 2009.

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date	user	change
08/12/2009	mikedaps	Added notes
27/08/2012	mossysal	Deleted note: J B Morrel possibly John Bowes Morrel (1873-1963)

Specimen #281622

Taxon:	Iridaceae: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill ("Spring Crocus")
Filed in taxon folder:	Iridaceae: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill ("Spring Crocus")
Collected by:	Mr Thomas Clark
Collection date:	1854
Locality:	Great Britain, VC56 Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, SK54, Near Nottingham
ex herb:	Mr Thomas Clark
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Crocus purpureus

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 1^st November 2009.

Checked by mossysal

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27/08/2012	mossysal	Added collector: Mr Thomas Clark

Specimen #281623

Taxon:	Iridaceae: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill ("Spring Crocus")
Filed in taxon folder:	Iridaceae: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill ("Spring Crocus")
Collected by:	Mr Herbert William Pugsley
Collection date:	19/3/1924
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Malden, TQ26, In meadow
communicated:	Mr Herbert William Pugsley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Crocus purpureus

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Documented by mikedaps on 1^st November 2009.

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27/08/2012	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Malden, "In meadow"
27/08/2012	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC17 Malden, In meadow

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mikedaps wrote

Bottom left Label: The collector seems to be clearly listed as J B Morrel - I can find no trace of such a chap or any close variations - Anybody found him before / elsewhere or have I misread the seemingly clear writing?

[oldnick]

Amazingly I have heard of this person, name as spelt - There is a building named after him at York University, the J B Morrel library! Though I know nothing about him and did not know he was in any way a botanist.

[Chris Liffen]

fwiw
quote from york.ac.uk
"This is the main University Library and is named after John Bowes Morrell, a former Lord Mayor of York and a leading figure in the local movement to establish a university in York."
http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-morrell85523+2-2-0-1-0
He was born in 1873.

[mossysal]

and see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowes_Morrell

[Mike d'Apice]

On googling the name I hadn't noticed the Morrell's second 'L' seems to be optional - their aren't any J B Morrels in the 1891 census, but two J B Morrells, the other is a Jane B (b. 1874 a year after John) but born and still living at Belper, just 10 miles from Nottingham where specimen collected, while John was seemingly raised in Yorkshire, so Jane might have had the better opportunity if no, yet, known motive for collecting plants as a teenager... Guess John Bowes M the better bet pro temp: Added note. Thanks. Mike d'A

[David Price]

If the love of Flora burns in a teenager's breast, no other motive is required for collecting botanical specimens. I expect the alternative spelling of Morrell's name was careless rather than optional. What speaks in favour of Morrell is his Quakerism - Quaker collectors are highly represented in HST's herbarium.

[Mike d'Apice]

Guess that confirms it - HST was educated at the Bootham (a Quaker) school, York so as John B M was also a Quaker, living in York a good bet he went there also, with HST a few years senior to him. The Bootham's Archive page details "Natural History Journal (1834-1902). The School’s Natural History Society is thought to be the oldest society of its kind in Britain, founded in 1834 by John Ford.": Presumably the pupils were required/encouraged or at least had the opportunity for Botanical collecting while there, JBM included. Mike d'A