<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hi Kim,</div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I work as part of the digitisation project at RBG Kew. I've shared the photo with the team to see if anyone here recognises it. Do you have any other information on the specimens that have the stamp? Like a region they were collected from (I did see the British stamp) or a date range?</div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cheers,</div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Samantha</div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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Data Manager — Digital Collections</div><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Science Directorate</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Richmond, TW9 3AE </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:s.sutton@kew.org" title="mailto:s.sutton@kew.org" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">s.sutton@kew.org</a></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:blue"><u><br>
</u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <img src="cid:ii_mfzd9yyz1" alt="image.png" width="205" height="84"></span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM Kim Madge <<a href="mailto:KMadge@nature.ca">KMadge@nature.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7278955644897495590">




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As part of our ongoing collaboration with the University of Guelph Herbarium, we’ve come across a number of specimens bearing the attached stamp (see image below).<br>
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 like EWJ?), so if anyone recognizes it, we’d really appreciate hearing from you!</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks very much,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">Kim Madge (she/her/elle)</p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Digitization Project Officer, Botany / Agente projet de Numerisation Botanique</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(32,33,36)">Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(32,33,36)">P. O. Box 3443, Station D / c. p. 3443, succursale D</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(32,33,36)">Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6P4, Canada</span></p>
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