Talk:EBC 43469 (by 1882)

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EBC 43469 (by 1882) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

This is an object rather than a field gathering: Kew's catalogue names a donor and an entry number, and no collector, no collection date and no place finer than North Formosa. It documents hemp thread from northern Taiwan by 1882. Thread is material for weaving rather than a finished product, so it is entered as an accession. 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 North Formosa, the northern part of the island of Taiwan under its historical name. It has no boundary, spans several of today's counties and cities, and the catalogue names no place within it. The donor was the British consul at Tamsui, in the north of the island, but the catalogue does not say that the material came from there.

Editorial treatment

The entry book number is not a collection date. Kew's help page defines an Entry Book Number as a number assigned to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition, running in a series each year. This object's number, 139.1882, dates its arrival at Kew. The collection date field is blank, and the accession carries no date; the thread was made no later than 1882, the limit the title gives.

The label number. The notes field transcribes Label source: No A.49, a number on the object's label. What series it belongs to is not recorded; it is given in the article only.

Wording. Native is the catalogue's word and is quoted as part of the object's name.

Determination. Kew's determination stops at genus, so the scientific-name field gives Cannabis L.

Donor. Kew's donor field reads Watters T, HM Consul; the full name is not given. The collector field is empty, because Kew's help page uses the donor field for specimens that passed through a second person or institution.

Country. Kew leaves the country undefined. Its geography line, North Formosa, is in present-day Taiwan, which the country field gives.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 15:19, 13 October 2026 (+07)