Talk:EBC 43406 (by 1910)
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Evidentiary scope
This is an object rather than a field gathering: Kew's catalogue names a donor, an exhibition, and no collector, no collection date and no place finer than Manchuria. It documents hemp seed from Manchuria that had reached Kew by 1910. The catalogue gives no habitat and no note on cultivation, so the accession is classified Other; no conservation priority is assigned.
Kew publishes no image of this object, and GBIF carries none.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The geography line names only Manchuria, a historical region of north-east Asia far larger than a province, which is not an administrative unit today, and nothing within it.
Editorial treatment
The entry book number is not a collection date. Kew's help page defines an Entry Book Number as a number assigned to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition, running in a series each year. This object's number, 152.1910, dates its arrival at Kew. The collection date field is blank, and the accession carries no date; the seed was gathered no later than 1910, the limit the title gives.
The donor is an exhibition. Kew's donor field reads Japan-British Exhibition 1910. The catalogue does not say who showed the seed at the exhibition, or where in Manchuria it was grown.
Collection method. The field gives Seeds, the value for seed material. The object is a museum seed sample, and the page does not claim that it holds viable seed.
Country. Kew codes the object China. Manchuria in its widest sense also took in land now in Russia; the country field follows Kew's code.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 15:17, 13 October 2026 (+07)