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John Hewitt
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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:41 am Post subject: SLBI 'Coombe Wood' ambiguous locality (and collector)sheets |
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The six sheets currently on website bearing this location and year date
1887 would appear to me to be labelled in the hand of Charles Baylis Green (CBG 1851- 1918) . Perhaps these specimens had been collected either by him or another person connected to him before he had started any serious collection of his own (in early 1900's). There is a Coombe Wood Golf Course near Kingston,Surrey, in which area he did some collecting in later years (hence another possible source for the six sheets).
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Chris Liffen
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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and http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9770
| CLL wrote: | For interest
Coombe Wood was a 'favourite' for outings of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society over the years e.g.
The site was part of the large Coombe estate, including woods and commonland, privately owned until the mid C20th. |
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John Hewitt
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:54 pm Post subject: SLBI . Coombe Wood. Ambiguous location. 1887 specimens |
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Thank you, Chris. I would agree that a (cultivated) rockery at Coombe Wood , S. Croydon (I know it well) would be a more likely source of the
plants being referred to on these sheets.Perhaps as you suggest who-ever did collect them was on an excursion organised by the CNHSS. Whether
this could have been Charles Baylis Green, or someone he knew, I am not
in a position to comment. Perhaps CNHSS has records going back that far.
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Chris Liffen
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Merely, another Coombe Wood..... |
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