Talk:EBC 43408 (by 1862)
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Evidentiary scope
This is an object rather than a field gathering: Kew's catalogue names a donor and a donor date, and no collector, no collection date and no place finer than northern China. It documents hemp seed from northern China that had reached Kew by February 1862. The catalogue gives no habitat and no note on cultivation, so the accession is classified Other; no conservation priority is assigned.
Kew publishes no image of this object, and GBIF carries none.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The geography line reads Northern China, a broad region that spans several provinces and has no boundary, and names no place within it; the region is far larger than a province.
Editorial treatment
The donor date is not a collection date. February 1862 is when the seed was given to Kew. It is used only as the latest date the gathering can be from, which the title gives; the collection date stays empty.
Donor, not collector. Kew's help page uses the donor field for specimens that passed through a second person or institution, and the collector field for whoever first obtained them. Bickford TL is in the donor field, so the collector field is empty. The donor is not further identified.
Collection method. The field gives Seeds, the value for seed material. The object is a museum seed sample, and the page does not claim that it holds viable seed.
A pair. The fibre sample EBC 43464 (by 1862) has the same donor and donor date, and Kew's catalogue gives its place as North China. Neither entry says whether the two came from the same crop.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 15:18, 13 October 2026 (+07)