Talk:Soulié 1224 (by 1903)

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Soulié 1224 (by 1903) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The label places the plant at Tsekou and dates its receipt in Paris to July 1903. It gives no collecting date, altitude, habitat, use or note on cultivation. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.

Label reading

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• Old slips. N: 1224 / a word in cursive, perhaps Tsekou, not read with confidence and not used.
• Museum label (printed, completed by hand): HERB. MUS. PARIS. / Cannabis sativa L. / Plantes de CHINE. (Thibet oriental.) Tsekou / R. P. SOULIÉ. / stamp Reçu le 8 Juillet 1903.

Georeferencing

The point 28.01, 98.90 is the village of Cigu (茨姑), in Dêqên County, OpenStreetMap node 3757060418 (28.01056, 98.89900). Tsekou is read as Cigu by its name. The Catholic parish of Tsekou was later moved to Cizhong (English Wikipedia; Sacred Heart Church, Cizhong, Wikidata Q3585469), whose village point, OpenStreetMap node 2961305046, lies about 2 km to the north. The label gives no altitude to check the point against. It places the gathering at the village, not at a spot within it. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 3 km.

Editorial treatment

Date. No collecting date is on the sheet. Reçu le 8 Juillet 1903 dates its receipt in Paris, so no date is stored and the title takes (by 1903). The sources differ on when Soulié went to Tsekou: in 1891 (French Wikipedia; Fournier 1932, who describes a journey there that year) or in 1896 (English Wikipedia).

Collector. The museum label calls him R. P. Soulié (Révérend Père); the collector field takes J. A. Soulié, the form on his field label of 1893. He is Jean-André Soulié (1858–1905), a priest of the Missions Étrangères de Paris, who reached Tatsienlou in 1886 and in ten years sent more than 7,000 plants to the Paris museum; he was killed at Yaregong in 1905 (Fournier's account of the French missionary naturalists, 1932; French Wikipedia; Harvard botanist index). The sources differ on the day of his death (14 April in Fournier and French Wikipedia, 11 December in English Wikipedia). The prose links Jean-André Soulié.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 14:24, 13 October 2026 (+07)