Rubber bottle or pouch - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44079 | |||||
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Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea brasiliensis | Entry Book Number | 1.1983.1 | |
| Artefact Name | Rubber bottle or pouch | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Rubber bottle or pouch | Geography Description | Brazil | ||
| Uses | Rubber bottle or pouchUse: MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Binnerts Mrs A | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Dr JC Willis | |||
| Collector | Swainson William | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1817 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Handwriting on loose lip is that of Dr JC Willis FRS.x0Dx0AEntry Book: Borracha or rubber bottle collected in Brazil by William Swainson FRS in 1817 and exhibited at the Rubber Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro by his grandnephew Dr JC Willis, FRS, (, father of the donor). Possibly the oldest specimen of rubber of known date existing.x0Dx0AAlso see EBC44078x0Dx0ALooks like a pouch, possibly a tobacco pouch?x0Dx0Ax0Dx0A | ||||