Feedback request: Minuartia verna (7631)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #324222

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Minuartia verna (L.) Hiern ("Spring Sandwort")
Other name:	Caryophylleae: Arenaria verna L.
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Minuartia verna (L.) Hiern ("Spring Sandwort")
Collected by:	Rev Richard Paget Murray
Collection date:	7/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC1 West Cornwall, Kynance Cove, SW61
ex herb:	Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Henry Franklin Parsons
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Tags:	collectors number: 240b

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Documented by hallucigenia on 12^th September 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
19/09/2011	hallucigenia	Deleted collector: Rev R V Murray
19/09/2011	hallucigenia	Added collector: Rev Richard Paget Murray
24/04/2013	qgroom	Deleted provenance: exherb H J Parsons
24/04/2013	qgroom	Added provenance: exherb Henry Franklin Parsons

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hallucigenia wrote

New collector?

[Chris Liffen]

There is no Rev R V Murray on the various census returns (of the late C19th) nor amongst the alumni of Oxford and Cambridge (where many of the Clergy trained).
However, examination of specimens from Rev Richard Paget Murray indicates that his signature could easily be interpreted as R V Murray.
I would suggest that perhaps the specimen has been remounted / original label removed ...., and someone has written the name as Rev R V Murray, rather than R P Murray.
See specimens of Rev R P Murray's handwriting / signature below.
Rev R P Murray read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, was a FLS and was based at various times in Devon, Somerset, Dorset & Beckenham.

[David Price]

I had reached the same conclusion as Chris.

Murray's well thought-of Flora of Somerset was published in instalments in the Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (final instalment 1896).

[hallucigenia]

Very many thanks to you both.
C