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Dear Matt
RBGE has Parry specimens and some more information relating to the expeditions. I will contact you off list with some more information about them.
Best wishes
Elspeth
Dr E M Haston
Deputy Herbarium Curator, The
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On Behalf Of Matt Williams
Sent: 28 November 2017 4:05 PM
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Subject: Parry botanical specimens
Dear all,
Those of you with responsibility for botanicals specimens, does your collection contain specimens collected during William Edward Parry’s arctic exploration voyages in the 1820s?
We have a herbaria of 50 specimens collected on the second (1823) and third (1824-25) of Parry’s voyages in search of the north-west passage, but we have limited collecting data with them and are not sure who the collector was. We have
some associated initials, but they do not tally with anyone on the crew manifests. It would be great to know what other material is out there from the voyages and if there is data that could help us better document this small collection.
Best wishes,
Matt Williams (BRLSI)
Matt Williams (MSc, AMA)
Collections Manager, BRLSI
Visiting Fellow at University of Bristol
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/matt-williams/41/95a/957
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