Duff (1993) records ‘little is known about John Baxter, an assistant in the Chemistry Laboratories at Downside School during the 1950s who collected exclusively, if not particularly assiduously, in Somerset (J.H. Kemp, pers. comm..) It appears that Baxter inherited J.V. Blachford’s collection and added his specimens to it, and it was Baxter who gave Blachford’s collection to the University of Bath.’ (MD 1/22)