Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.040.018 |
Object Name |
Specimen, Botanical |
Title |
Hay-Scented Fern from Connecticut, with Hartford Climbing Fern |
Date |
c. 1917 |
Made |
McColl, W. R. |
Place of Origin |
United States of America |
Description |
A Connecticut-collected fern specimen (Hay-scented Fern), mounted on a large piece of paper with a xerox of the original label information: CONNECTICUT FLORA / Hay-scented fern with Hartford climbing fern / Dicksonia punctilobula (mich x 1 and Lygoldium palmatum Sw. "Dry thicker. Sandy Soil. Plainsville Ct. / H. C. BIGELOW, COLLECTOR AUG. 26 1917." |
Provenance |
Initially collected in Connecticut, U.S.A., by H. C. Bigelow, on August 26, 1917. It was next collected by W. R. McColl who had an Exchange Herbarium at Owen Sound. 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 1917. 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) |