Starch - Specimen details

Starch - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 37066

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Plant Name 170.03 MARANTACEAE Maranta arundinacea Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Starch Vernacular Name
Iso Country Bermuda TDWG Region Bermuda
Parts Held Starch Geography Description Bermuda, Caribbean, Southern America
Uses StarchUse: MATERIALS User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 33 B 8
Donor Date Donor Notes Allen & Hanburys Ltd Londonx0Dx0A
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
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Notes: Label source: A fair proportion of granules in this specimen are swollen & gelatinised by 1% KOH. therefore admixed with potato. T.E.W. Mar 1934. Copy of Letter received 8/5/1930 from Messrs Allen & Hanburys Ltd. Bethnal Green, E.2. See Letter from C.W., Maplethorpe 8/8/30. Dear Sirs, Bermuda Arrowroot. With reference to our conversation regarding the above article supplied to you, we have pleasure in advising that we have now received a declaration about this, which reads as follows:- ' I..... do hereby, declare that Seven Barrels of Arrowroot supplied to .... as invoiced the second day of July Nineteen Hundred and Twenty Nine, was grown on my farm in the Bermuda Islands.' Signed. Declared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace, this 14th day of, April Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. J.P.

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