Talk:Cooper 1174 (1914)

Talk

Discussion for: Cooper 1174 (1914) • View • Links • Related changes

Use this page for verification notes, disputes, and action items. Keep narrative content on the article.

Page scope

Cooper 1174 (1914) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

Data verification

Check the main page for documentation tier status. Discuss coordinate accuracy, photo quality, or collection details here.

Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The label records cannabis plants of three to ten feet growing in moist, shady places at Chukka, 4,500 feet, in July 1914. It names no use, variety or local name, and does not say whether the plant was growing wild, escaped or cultivated. A single sheet does not establish a landrace or a continuing population. No conservation priority is assigned. The accession is classified Other: shade and moisture are not a ruderal habitat.

Label reading

Read from the Edinburgh image (E00150671, 2741 × 4096 pixels).

Printed label FLORA OF BHUTAN., with printed field names (Locality, Date, Altitude, Remarks, No.) filled in by hand, and the printed foot R. E. Cooper, Collector for A. K. Bulley, Esq., Cheshire.
Pencil 153 above the label: a filing figure, not a field datum.
Pencil =153 and 5 above the label; a packet at the upper left carries the number 1174.
Handwritten entries. Locality Chukka Timpu; Date 4/7/14.; Altitude 4500'; Remarks No. 1174, varying 3'-10' in moist shady places, Cannabis sativa L.

Georeferencing

No coordinate is asserted, for the reasons given for Cooper 1104 (1914), gathered at the same named place the day before: Chukka is read as Chukha, and no settlement point was found that the label's 4,500 feet could test. The Chukha dzongkhag's boundary centroid, which OpenStreetMap returns for the name, lies at about 1,350 metres, within 25 metres of this label's altitude; it is the centroid of a district, not a place, and the agreement is not evidence.

Editorial treatment

The collector field takes R.E. Cooper, the label's form, and the article uses the initials only. The catalogue gives the full name as Roland Edgar Cooper; the International Plant Names Index (author 1790-1) and the Harvard Index of Botanists give Rowland Edgar Cooper, 1890–1962. The province field takes the present-day dzongkhag in its English form, Chukha District, because the label names Chukka. The locality field keeps the label's spelling.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:16, 5 October 2026 (+07)