Talk:Young s.n., Kashmir (1880)
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Evidentiary scope
The label carries a region, a stretch of road, a month and a collector. There is no habitat note, no altitude, no use and no local name, so the accession is classified Other and carries no conservation priority. It documents presence in the Kashmir valley in August 1880.
Georeferencing
The locality line reads KASHMIR: Kampur to Baramula, which is a journey and not a point. Baramula is present-day Baramulla, on the Jhelum below Srinagar. Kampur is not identified: no settlement of that spelling could be matched on the route with any confidence. The label offers no distance or stage. The infobox therefore names the province and leaves the locality, the district and the coordinate empty.
The province follows the Natural History Museum's own placement of the sibling gathering from the same route and month, BM000547502, in Jammu and Kashmir (GBIF occurrence 1055524048).
Editorial treatment
The blue card is a typed British Museum herbarium label. The sheet carries no field slip. The card is therefore a transcription of a lost original. Its wording is quoted as it stands. The pencil Urtic and 153 above it are in a later hand. The same number appears on two other sheets in this run, E00248827 and E00248598. What the number counts is not recorded here.
The collector is given on the label as A.P.Young. The sibling sheet at the Natural History Museum writes the name out as Alfred Prentice Young. The Harvard index of botanists gives the same name, with the dates 1841 to 1920. The collector field keeps the label's initials form and the article links the full name.
The title uses the label's leading locality, Kashmir, in place of the road, following the practice of Jameson s.n., Kumaon (1849) for a broad label locality.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:43, 18 September 2026 (+07)