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I wonder if a less heavily cropped image would be better used here, as it would show the herbarium label and the plant's source at Breadsall, where Whittaker resided. Parkywiki (talk) 16:31, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Whilst research on Joseph Whittaker's biography over many years I have been singularly unable to determine the meaning of the letters 'A.B.S.E.' after Whittaker's name on his gravestone. This would be a great challenge for a Wikipedian, as it clearly must have meant something to be included so prominently on his inscription. We've ruled out such things as 'Associate of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh'. For anyone visiting Morley Churchyard near Derby to look for his gravestone, it is located on the far left side of the churchyard (when facing the church from the site entrance), beneath a holly tree on the graveyard perimeter.) I'll try and get a photo to upload to Commons in due course. --Parkywiki (talk) 11:40, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I have found several other people with the same abbreviation, as follows: Alexander Croall (noted in a British seaweeds book of 1859 where the first author William Grosart Johnstone is F.B.S.E) John Laing (1893, in an advert in a gardening newspaper) Mr Andrew Kerr of Montrose (1854, in an advert in the gardener's chronicle, regarding alpine plants) I think it likely there is a Scottish connection, and the Croall/Johnstone book strongly suggests the F would be Fellow, and the A would be Associate for the same society. Can you maybe say how you ruled out Botanical Society of Edinburgh as a possibility? DrThneed (talk) 01:19, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Returning to say that this membership list shows Joseph Whittaker as an Associate Member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, from their Transactions and Proceedings 1881–1883. DrThneed (talk) 01:35, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
This article states that there are 2,200 Joseph Whittaker herbarium specimens at Derby Museum, England. Since the paper on which this article is based was published (of which I was a co-author), I arranged for the herbarium collection at Derby Museum to be catalogued. In reality we found there are now only 600 herbarium sheets collected by J Whittaker at Derby, not 2,200 as originally thought. Unfortunately the list is unlikely ever to be placed in the public domain, so I recognise my revised figure can't be treated as a reliable source, or used in the article, but felt it was worth adding to this talk page. Parkywiki (talk) 11:21, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
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