Talk:Elizabeth Gertrude Britton

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Discussion

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)

Furthermore

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)

Date of Birth

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)

Cites for species named for EGKB

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)

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)

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)

Wild Plants Needing Protection

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)

Moving a quotation elsewhere in the article and striking this section.Dgorsline (talk) 18:03, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

West Indian Mosses/Bryology

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)

Also striking "Mrs. Britton wrote 346 papers, 170 of which were on mosses," which repeats information two paragraphs above. Dgorsline (talk) 13:51, 5 December 2022 (UTC) The sentence about Contributions to American Bryology is weak, because this series is also referred to elsewhere in the article, and the names of the genera that EGKB described can be discerned from the bibliography. Dgorsline (talk) 13:57, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Be careful of language. "West Indian Mosses" is a series of articles (or papers) that EGKB wrote, not a journal. The "first edition of this journal" should be "first article in this series." I'm not sure where "under the NYBG" comes from; the journal in which these papers appeared, as the bibliography indicates, is the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Dgorsline (talk) 14:04, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Simms29 (talk) for striking this section. It did not contribute much to the article. I was leaving it in place for a while, hoping that BMark13 (talk) would clean it up. Dgorsline (talk) 13:46, 9 May 2023 (UTC)