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[chrisu]

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Specimen #287121

Taxon:	Poaceae: Poa nemoralis L. ("Wood Meadow-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Poa nemoralis L. ("Wood Meadow-grass")
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson Arthur George Tansley
Collection date:	24/6/1923
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Sharpham Moor Plot, ST465389
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by chrisu on 22^nd January 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
25/01/2010	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Sharpham Moor, Sharpham moor plot
25/01/2010	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC6 Sharpham Moor Plot
26/10/2013	xmhcman	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Sharpham Moor Plot
26/10/2013	xmhcman	Added locality: GB VC6 Sharpham Moor Plot ST465389 (place)

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chrisu wrote

Could this be Sir Arthur George Tansley (1871 - 1955)

[Mike d'Apice]

From some random googling: "After World War I Tansley turned to psychology and resigned from Cambridge in 1923 to spend time studying under Sigmund Freud in Austria. In 1927 he became professor of botany at Oxford University, a position held until his retirement in 1937." viewed at http://www.answers.com/topic/arthur-tansley
So assuming he didn't resign/ before the end of the Cambridge 1922/23 academic year he should have still in the area on 24th Jun 1923. There are seemingly dozens of A, AG and G Tansleys but only Sir AG seems to be a botanist, so probably yes!!

[Chris Liffen]

There is a detailed article on his life and work here
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/forrester/nice_type.pdf [pdf]; an interesting man - a quick search on Amazon reveals the extent of his writings.
Chris