Talk:Elizabeth Gertrude Britton

message: This page may have been subject to vandalism. I rolled back the obvious malevolent edits, but I do suspect that parts of the vita might have been altered to no longer reflect the correct information. Please check.
85.3.211.25 (talk) 21:04, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: According to one reference she was born in New York, in the other she does not appear at all. Although the obvious vandalism was removed, I suspect there has been more damage done. The  "history" column is truncated. Tusbra I undid some of the damage like "Yugoslavia and "Normal" etc.(talk) 19:03, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Furthermore

message: Some conflict in the sources about EGB's birth date.  Bonta has 1858, others have 1857.  Working on it. Dgorsline (talk) 16:20, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth 

message: The IPNI database search http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=326B4C95792BBFD29A36CCEC21B420E9?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=brittonae&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch is offered as support for the list of species named for EGKB.  There are a couple of issues with this cite. (1) The search only looks for the species name "brittonae."  Other species names like "brittonii," are not part of the search.  (2) Presumably some of these species are named for Lord Britton instead of his wife, or even other unrelated Brittons. A better source for "X is named for Y" is the original paper describing X and giving it its name.  Dgorsline (talk) 11:49, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Dryopteris brittonae, Gonopteris brittonae, and Thelypteris brittonae are synonyms.  The first description, and naming for Britton, appears to be in Maxon, W.R. (1926) Pteridophyta [of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands]. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands volume 6, but I am unable to locate a copy. Dgorsline (talk) 21:09, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

text: For anyone who would like to continue the search, the USDA PLANTS entry for this species is at http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=THBR2, "Thelypteris brittonae (Slosson ex Maxon) Alain: Britton's maiden fern." Dgorsline (talk) 14:49, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cites for species named for EGKB 

message: I have flagged this section for non-encyclopedic tone.  The diction is informal ("she goes over", "really shows") and adjectives like "beautiful" and "highly intelligent" aren't backed up by citations.  The section largely consists of quotations from EGKB's series, which is referred to elsewhere in the article. Dgorsline (talk) 13:38, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Moving a quotation elsewhere in the article and striking this section.Dgorsline (talk) 18:03, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wild Plants Needing Protection 

message: I'm striking the sentence about North American Flora, as that information is elsewhere in the article. Dgorsline (talk) 13:45, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  West Indian Mosses/Bryology