Chorney, Kosmyn   (fl. 1966 - 1985)
or
Czornij, Kosmyn

Herbarium assistant, State Herbarium, Adelaide, SA.

Note the correspondence below:

"Dear Murray

I have checked Kosmyn's collector's books and only 2 spellings were ever used - Czornij and Chorney, and these are the only 2 which appear in our database.

As you might expect it is mostly the earlier names that are entered in the database here as Czornij - the highest number seems to be about 1185. The spelling Chorney goes up to about 1500 in numbers (apart from one in the 7000's, but that is a survey number and not a collector's number) but it also crops up in a number of lower-numbered collections, possibly indicating that like the rest of us there were delays in getting labels typed up and the spelling he had adopted by then was used in preference to what might have appeared on the tag enclosed with the original specimen.

Kosmyn's handwriting was not easy to read and so some of these alternative spellings may have arisen from misinterpretations of it or possibly just in the early anglicising of his name.

Hope this helps.
cheers
Robyn Barker, Adelaide 18/12/2003"

Source: Extracted from:
Pers.Comm. Murray Fagg (2003)
Pers.Comm. Robyn Barker (2003)
Portrait Photo: 1978, George Chippendale collection held at ANBG.

Collecting localities for 'Chorney, K. or Czornij, K.' from AVH (2025)

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