Feedback request: Cystopteris fragilis (355.2.1)

[dawn nelson]

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Specimen #317991

Taxon:	Woodsiaceae: Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh. ("Brittle Bladder-fern")
Other name:	Woodsiaceae: Cystopteris regia (L.) Desv.
Filed in taxon folder:	Woodsiaceae: Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh. ("Brittle Bladder-fern")
Collected by:	A H Foord
Collection date:	7/1885
Locality:	Great Britain, VC87 West Perthshire, Menstrie Glen, NS89, 'Menstry Glen Nr Stirling'
Institution:	University College Dublin (DBC)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by dawn nelson on 8^th April 2011.

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date	user	change
01/10/2013	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC87 Menstrie Glen, Mentry Glen Nr Stirling
01/10/2013	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC87 Menstrie Glen, 'Menstry Glen Nr Stirling'

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dawn nelson wrote

not sure of collector AHF

[Chris Liffen]

Foord : Arthur Humphreys Foord
1845-1934

Ford was born in Kent, but spent some of his working life in Canada
Quote "Foord worked for the Geological Survey of Canada from 1872 to 1883 as a scientific illustrator, and later garnered fame in Europe for his work on Carboniferous cephalopods in Ireland"
http://www.miguasha.ca/mig-en/the_first_discoveries.php.

He worked on the Catalogue of fossil cephalopods in the British Museum.

In 1891, he accepted a post in Dublin as Librarian and Editor of the Royal Dublin Society. http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/books/irishnaturalists.htm
When he retired, he moved to Sussex. He held an honorary doctorate, awarded by Munich University.

[dawn nelson]

Thanks, but how do you know it was him, do you recognise the hand writing or anything, there are only initials on the sheet and it is from Scotland?
D

[Chris Liffen]

I was merely offering information about Foord.
But see
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/318030/?image.

[dawn nelson]

That seems to be it , many thanks