Talk:Anderson s.n., Mussoorie (1914)
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Evidentiary scope
The two labels give a house name, an altitude, a town, months and a collector: Gracemount at 6,500 feet, Mussoorie, collected by A. Anderson in July and September 1914 on one sheet and in August 1914 on the other. Neither label gives a collection number, a habitat or a site within Gracemount, and neither records a use or a local name. Nothing shows whether the plants were sown, tended or volunteer. The accession is classified Unknown. The sheets show Cannabis plants of both sexes at 6,500 feet at Mussoorie in 1914, and no continuing population or living germplasm holding. No conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
Mussoorie is in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand. Gracemount is the name written on both labels; it is not identified further here. Nothing found fixes it within the town, so the coordinate is Mussoorie's own point in OpenStreetMap (node 245770206), 30.46, 78.08, used as a locality georeference rather than as a reconstructed collection point. Mussoorie stands at about 2,015 m against the labels' 6,500 feet, which is 1,981 m. The elevation comes from the labels' 6500' , which is 1,981 m.
The coordinate georeferences the place the label names, at two decimal places, with the mapped object named above. OpenStreetMap maps Mussoorie as a point and draws no boundary for the town, so the uncertainty is set at about 5 km, the figure used for King s.n., Mussoorie (1869) on the same point. An earlier version of this note put it at about 3 km without saying what that was measured from. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 5 km. Éloise 06:11, 18 September 2026 (+07)
Editorial treatment
The two sheets are treated as one accession. They carry the same collector, the same house, the same altitude and the same year, in one hand. Neither carries a number. Their months differ: E00248597 reads July with & Sept. inserted above a caret; E00248598 reads August. The alternative is two accessions, which would take the same title and force one of them into another form, as the two Jameson sheets would have.
Because the material spans at least July to September, the collection date is stored at year precision. The catalogue dates E00248597 to 1914 and E00248598 to August 1914.
The stamp HERBARIUM of Capt. A. Anderson Presented 1925 is a custody date. It records when the herbarium reached Edinburgh and is not used for the gathering.
The collector is not identified beyond the label and the stamp. Neither the Harvard index of botanists nor IPNI carries an entry that matches a Captain A. Anderson collecting at Mussoorie, so the collector field keeps the label's initial form.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:44, 18 September 2026 (+07)