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Evidentiary scope
The label places a cannabis plant near Chinchou, close to Dairen, in June 1930. It gives no habitat, use or note on cultivation. The collectors were seeking crop plants for the United States, but the label does not say whether this plant was a crop. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Read twice, independently, from the Missouri image (2000 × 3000 pixels, through GBIF's image cache). The California Academy's sheet did not load from either route on 8 October 2026 and is cited from its catalogue.
- Label (printed, completed by hand): Smithsonian Institution / From THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HERBARIUM / PLANTS OF SOUTHERN MANCHURIA / Cannabis sativa L. / Vicinity of Chinch followed by o and a letter read once as u and once as n / , near Dairen / No. 5857 P. H. DORSETT / W. J. MORSE Collectors / June (by hand, over a struck printed month) , 1930. Missouri stamp 1046944.
Georeferencing
The coordinate, 39.10, 121.71, is Wikidata's point for Jinzhou District of Dalian (金州, Q1362024), 39.0994, 121.7138, rounded to two decimals; SRTM gives 11 m there. The town is identified from the label's near Dairen: Jinzhou was the walled town north of Dalian, in the Kwantung Leased Territory from 1905. The spelling alone could also fit 錦州 Jinzhou City, 230 km away, which is not near Dairen. The point stands for the town; the label says vicinity. The province field takes Liaoning.
Editorial treatment
Two sheets, one accession. The Missouri and California Academy sheets share the number, date and place. The repository is Missouri, the sheet that was read. No image is uploaded: Missouri publishes its image under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Collectors. The collector field takes P. H. Dorsett, the first name on the label, and the title follows it. The prose links Palemon Howard Dorsett (1862–1943) and William Joseph Morse (1884–1959), who led the Department of Agriculture's Oriental Agricultural Exploration Expedition to Japan, Korea, Manchuria and China in 1928–1931; Morse was the department's soybean specialist. The Missouri catalogue and the Harvard botanist index expand W. J. Morse as Warner Jackson Morse (1872–1931), a different man; the soybean explorer was William Joseph Morse.
Source discrepancies
- The Missouri catalogue names the second collector Warner Jackson Morse; the expedition's Morse was William Joseph Morse.
- The catalogues read the town as Chinchon (Missouri) and Chinchou (California Academy).
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 05:07, 9 October 2026 (+07)