Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.040.016 |
Object Name |
Specimen, Botanical |
Title |
Dryopteris spinulosum x Fern Specimen (Spinulose Wood Fern?) |
Date |
c. 1920 |
Year Range from |
1918 |
Year Range to |
1920 |
Made |
McColl, W. R. |
Place of Origin |
Grey County, Ontario |
Description |
A Grey County fern specimen (Dryopteris spinulosum x, perhaps also referred to as a Spinulosumy?), mounted on a large piece of paper. There is one specimen, with a bent stalk. "37 in x 13 in" is pencilled. A black pencil calligraphy title is at the lower left: "aspidium spinulosum var x marginale? Hybrid." The MNR label has an error on it, instead of 1919 to 1918, it likely should have been 1920 at the end. |
Provenance |
One of a group of specimens pressed and mounted on paperboard that W. R. McColl assembled between 1917 to 1930. W. R. McColl was an active botanist and collector in the 1920s, and this item was likely mounted around 1920. He was an Owen Sound businessman / merchant (b. 1855-d. 1933). The Owen Sound branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources later updated the collection with white paper folder top covers, likely as environmental protection from dust and light. At an unknown date, the specimens were given to Nels Maher, an Owen Sound printer, field naturalist and fern expert, who kept them at his home. After 2005, they were kept by his wife, Jean Maher (née Weir). |
Collection |
Natural History Collection |
Material |
Cardboard/Paper/Fern//Ink/Glue |
Dimensions |
W-71.5 L-54.8 D-0.3 cm |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
McColl, W. R. Maher, Nelson |
Subjects |
Ferns Botany |
Function |
Ministry of Natural Resources Herbarium Specimen (initially collected by W. R. McColl in Grey County) |