Flask of Para rubber - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44078 | |||||
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Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea brasiliensis | Entry Book Number | 31.1918 | |
| Artefact Name | Flask of Para rubber | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Flask of Para rubber | Geography Description | Brazil | ||
| Uses | Flask of Para rubberUse: MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dr JC Willis, Director of Botantic Garden | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 23/08/1918 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | William Swainson | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1817 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: The oldest manufactured article of the kind. x0Dx0ANote in Portuguese: 'Uma borracha, collida no Brazil en 1817 pelo naturalista illustre William Swainson F.R.S.'x0Dx0AThe writer showed at the Rubber Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in 1913 a borracha o, r rubber bottle collected in Brazil by his granduncle William Swainson FRS, in 1817, which is still sound, though no longer elastic, and is perhaps the oldest specimen of rubber of known date existing. Of course, this rubber was not vulcanised.x0Dx0AAlso see, EBC44079 | ||||