Wood - Specimen details
Catalogue Number: 24733 | |||||
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No Image | Plant Name | 43.01 MELIACEAE Swietenia sp | Entry Book Number | ||
Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
Iso Country | Honduras | TDWG Region | Honduras | ||
Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Honduras | ||
Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
Storage | Woods size C | Related Items | |||
Donor | Temple R Chief Justice | Donor No | |||
Donor Date | 14/04/1860 | Donor Notes | |||
Collector | Collector No | ||||
Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
Number Components | Publication | ||||
Notes: | Label source: Piece of Mahogany showing an impression in the new wood, upon which a similar impression has been cut. Letter attached - My Dear Sir William, I have brought you from Honduras three boxes containing plants. They are the penguin, the Honduras, Pine and a palm from the State of Honduras. I have also brought you a piece of a mahogany tree having a cross carved in the middle. The cross has evidently been made on the bark when the tree was a sapling. These things are in charge of Dunlop & Schooles, , Agents, Southampton. I am etc R Temple. Copy 30th june 1916 (letters L xV. No 298) in Herbarium |