Feedback request: Pedicularis sylvatica (35245)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #357294

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Pedicularis sylvatica L. ("Lousewort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Pedicularis sylvatica L. ("Lousewort")
Collected by:	A U B
Collection date:	1896
Locality:	Great Britain, VC18 South Essex, Epping Forest, TQ49
ex herb:	North London Natural History Society Local Herbarium
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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notes:	'Lousewort or Featherfoil'

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Documented by oldnick on 7^th February 2013.

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oldnick wrote

AUB / ANB perhaps = A U Battley? [date OK but no other H@H specimens]

[Roger Horton]

Sounds feasible:
A U Battley
Born ~1866
Secretary of the City of London Entomological and Natural History Society from 1890 to 1895
President of the North London Natural Hitstoiy Society in 1893
1893: 28, Amhurst Park, London N
Died aged 39, 1 April 1905 Kingsfield, Hunter's Forstal, Herne Bay
"an ardent field-naturalist from his boyhood, and although the Lepidoptera were his favourite study, his acquaintance with ornithology was of no mean order, and botany and geology also claimed a share of his attention"