Talk:Sonnerat s.n. (by 1785)
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Evidentiary scope
The sheet documents that hemp from India reached Paris and Lamarck's herbarium by 1785. It names no place, no habitat, no use and no note on cultivation. A single gathering does not establish a landrace or a continuing population. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Not read for this page. The museum publishes one photograph of the sheet (V. Durand, 2022) under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; GBIF does not cache it, and the museum's image server answers scripts with a browser check. The annotation is quoted as McPartland and Small (2020) give it, and the other values come from the museum's catalogue.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The catalogue gives India and no locality (s.loc.). McPartland and Small place the sheet likely at Pondicherry, from where most of Sonnerat's Paris specimens were collected; that is an inference about the collector's other sheets, not a reading of this one, and the province field is left empty.
Editorial treatment
Title. The sheet carries no collector's number and no date, so the title takes s.n. and (by 1785): Lamarck published Cannabis indica on this material in 1785. The collection date field is left empty, as on other undated sheets.
Collector. The collector field takes Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814), the French naturalist after whom the museum's specimen database is named (Le Bras et al. 2017, Scientific Data 4: 170016). The museum's catalogue gives Sonnerat, P.; McPartland and Small give Lamarck in the collector position and Sonnerat in the annotation.
Image. The museum's photograph is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and is not uploaded. It can be seen through the catalogue record cited in the article.
Source discrepancies
- McPartland and Small's main text gives Lamarck as the collector; the museum's catalogue gives Sonnerat, P.
- Their supplementary material (SF.6, p. 19) says Linnaeus’s type specimen of C. indica came from India, likely Pondicherry; the name is Lamarck's, and the main text (p. 94) gives the sheet under Lamarck.
Sources not yet read
- Lamarck's protologue, Encyclopédie méthodique, Botanique 1(2): 694–695 (1785), was not read for this page.
- McPartland and Guy (2017, Botanical Review 83: 327–381), which McPartland and Small cite for the full protologue and a photograph of this sheet, was not read.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 03:09, 16 October 2026 (+07)