Talk:Strachey & Winterbottom s.n., Kumaon (by 1849)
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Evidentiary scope
The label says the plant is common in Kumaon and gives an altitude band of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. Common is a note on how often the plant was met, not on whether it was grown or wild, and the label gives no habitat and no use. The accession is classified Other. A single gathering does not establish a landrace or a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Read twice, independently, from GBIF's cached copy of the museum's image (1600 × 2397 pixels); the museum's own image server refused the connection. Both readings agree: printed HIMALAYAN HERBARIUM. / R. STRACHEY and J. E. WINTERBOTTOM. / No. (blank); by hand Canabis sativa / Habitat common Kumaon. / Elevation above the Sea 5–10000 Feet.
The museum publishes this image under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, a licence the wiki's file pages do not carry, so the image is cited and not uploaded.
Georeferencing
No point is given. Kumaon is the finest place the label names: a region that is today the Kumaon division of Uttarakhand, made up of six districts, and far larger than a district. The altitude band, 5,000 to 10,000 feet (about 1,520 to 3,050 m), covers much of it and narrows nothing.
Editorial treatment
Title and date. The label gives no number and no date, so the title takes s.n., the place, and by 1849. Kew's dated sheets of the same herbarium fall between August and December 1848, when Strachey and Winterbottom travelled from Kumaon into Tibet (English Wikipedia, Richard Strachey); McPartland and Small date the Kumaon sheets 1846–1849. The latest of these years is used.
Collectors. The collector field takes the printed names, R. Strachey and J. E. Winterbottom.
Elevation. The label's band is not stored: the field takes one figure.
Sources not yet read
- Henry Strachey's Narrative of a journey to Cho Lagan (Rákas Tal), Cho Mapan (Mánasarówar), and the valley of Pruang in Gnari, Húndés (Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1848), which McPartland and Small cite for a jungle of wild hemp in the Himalaya, was not read for this page; it may describe the plants of Kumaon.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:57, 16 October 2026 (+07)