Talk:Bock 668 (1891)
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Evidentiary scope
The slip places a cannabis plant at Nanch'uan in August 1891, gives a name for it and records that it was used to make something. The product is not legible, and the slip does not say whether the plant was cultivated. 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
Read twice, independently, from the holder's image (4912 × 7360 pixels). The page states only what both readings agree.
- Printed label. Museum botanicum Christianiense. Plantæ chinenses in prov. Setchuen ab incolis collectæ, a C. Bock et A. v. Rosthorn communicatæ. / No / Cannabis sativa L (by hand).
- Field slip (German, ink): 668. / Huoma ts'ao. / a line read once as Feldrain · K[ë]naop'ing and once as feld[?]rant[?] . Kênaup'ing[?] / Nanch'uan / 29 Aug 91. / für Bereitung von [one word] verwendet.
- Chinese slip tied to the stem: one reading counted three or four characters, the other at least five; none was read.
The last word of the slip was read once as Sandalen (sandals) and once as Samsalin. Neither reading is secure, so the page does not name the product. Feldrain (field margin) and the place beginning K…p'ing are left out for the same reason.
Georeferencing
No coordinate is asserted. Nanch'uan (南川) is a district, and the slip's second place name, which would locate the gathering within it, was not read.
The province field takes Chongqing. Nanchuan belonged to Sichuan until 30 November 1997 and to Chongqing from 1 December 1997 (Wikidata Q714170, administrative history); the label's prov. Setchuen is Sichuan.
Editorial treatment
Collectors. The label says the plants were collected ab incolis (by the inhabitants) and communicated by Bock and Rosthorn. Rosthorn's own account, printed by Ludwig Diels in 1900 (Botanische Jahrbücher 29), says that, being kept at Chongqing by his work, he trained two Chinese assistants to collect, dry, number and describe plants, and that he later placed the collection at the disposal of his friend Generalconsul Bock, who gave it to the museum at Christiania (Oslo). The names of the two collectors are not recorded. The collector field takes C. Bock, the first name on the label and in the catalogue, and the title follows it, as on Ludlow 19635 (1949). Rosthorn is linked under his full name; Bock's identity (very probably Carl Alfred Bock, the Norwegian consul) is not stated by any source read, so he is left unlinked.
Name. The local name field holds the slip's Huoma ts'ao as written.
Source discrepancies
- The catalogue reads the place as Nanch'nan; the slip reads Nanch'uan. In this hand u and n are alike, and the slip of Bock 909 (1891) spells the name the same way.
- The catalogue gives Bock and Rosthorn as the determiners, with the collecting date as the date of determination; the sheet carries no determination slip.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 05:04, 9 October 2026 (+07)