Johnson (2004) notices that he lived in Droylesden near Manchester and collected mostly in that area and neighbouring areas of Cheshire and Derbyshire, north Wales and the Builth area. His collection is in Manchester Museum and includes 15,000 specimens, many of which were published by H.Britten in his role as Lancashire and Cheshire recorder. (When I saw the collection in 1979 it was housed in 44 miscellaneous boxes, including Wills cigarette boxes, in round glass- topped pill boxes. Many of the specimens appeared to have little information with them.) There are also Potter specimens in the Glasgow Museum (as part of an exchange with Manchester in 1976). (MD 9/04)
Dates
?1880-1964