Talk:David s.n., Beijing (1865)

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David s.n., Beijing (1865) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The label places the plant in the environs of Peking in 1865. It gives no habitat, use or note on cultivation. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.

Label reading

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• Museum label (printed, completed by hand): HERB. MUS. PARIS. / Cannabis sativa L. / Environs de PÉKIN (Chine septentrionale). / M. l'abbé A. DAVID. — 1865 (the year handwritten).
• Pencil slip, under a leaf: Mont P[ö]hua-chan[?] / Cannabis sativa. The place word is half hidden by the leaf. Its shape fits Po-hua-chan, the mountain now called Baihua Shan, west of Peking, but the reading is not certain and the article does not use it.

Georeferencing

No point is given. The printed label names the environs of Peking, an area of no stated extent around the city. The pencil slip may name a mountain, Po-hua-chan; if that is Baihua Shan (Wikidata Q28844270, about 1,990 m), it lies about 70 km west of the city. The reading is uncertain, and Fournier's account of the French missionary naturalists (1932, p. 70) dates David's visit to the Pohuachan to the summer of 1863, not 1865. The two readings of the place cannot be separated, and the city's point would stand for neither. The province field takes Beijing.

Editorial treatment

Date. The year 1865 is written on the museum label and is stored.

Title. The sheet carries no number, so the title takes s.n. and the present-day name of the place, Beijing.

Collector. The collector field keeps the label's A. David. He is Armand David (Jean Pierre Armand David, 1826–1900), a Lazarist priest designated in 1862 for the Peking mission, who explored the plain and the mountains around Peking and, in 1864 and 1865, the Jehol region to the north-east, and sent his collections to the Paris museum (Fournier 1932; Harvard botanist index; English and French Wikipedia). The prose links Armand David.

Source discrepancies

• The catalogue gives the locality Environs de Pékin and the year 1865, as the printed label does, and does not transcribe the pencil slip.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 14:26, 13 October 2026 (+07)