Paper stock, leaf & gluten - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 29616 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 170.04 MUSACEAE Musa textilis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Paper stock, leaf & gluten | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malaysia | TDWG Region | Malaysia | ||
| Parts Held | Paper stock, leaf & gluten | Geography Description | Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, Malesia, Asia Tropical | ||
| Uses | Paper stock, leaf & glutenUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Routledge T | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1875 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Abaca Magdalena River S.America Pisang utan of Sarawak. The Ford Works Co Ltd. near Sunderland 23 Dec 1875 - Mr T Thislteton Dyer. Dear Director, I find on returning home after a short absence you have been good enough to send the bamboo s, tem which for some reason or other, perhaps lateness in the season, want of sun last summer, slowness of growth to, is much more of a vegetable than I expected to find it and at least one half (the upper portion) is not sufficiently grown or matured for f, ibre and paper purposes. However, this is so much more information gained and as I want all I can get am much obliged. Will you ask Dr Hooker if he can inform me whether he knows the variety of bamboo which grows (my information says) most abundantly int, he neighbourhood of Nagpur Central Provinces India? He describes it as not exceeding 2 1/2 to 3 inches diameter in stem. I learn from in the adjoining forests he finds large quanities of Arundinaria (?) falcata or a cane very similar - from the comparison, with samples I have with the leaves on - grown in Devonshire. Do you happen to have in the Palm House specimens of the Pisang utan of the archipelago; a friend of mine from Sarawak is anxious to go into this for Paper Stuff, but I find his dried samples, most difficult to bleach. I imagine this Pisang if not identical is very similar to the Abaca of Central America (& the Philippines) this I have experimented upon, (also dried) and found it equally difficult on treatment and bleaching. I should mention t, hat the samples I have operated upon are very roughly prepared I enclose a piece, apparently crushed and beaten, then hung up to dry in the sun. Now I have found with all similar fibres thus prepared the same difficulty and this Pisang especically I fancy, contains a large quanity of tannin which has which has dyed (?) and thus fixed the colouring and muscilagenous compounds - so that the abstracted gluten in who brown and unbleachable ??. I am afraid you will deem me a most troublesome correspondant for t, hus so frequently troubling you. As I find no difficulty in heating and bleaching Manila Hemp, the Musa texilis - the Abaca there should be no difficulty in bleaching the Pisang of Borneo The only reason I concieve to be that the former has all the muscil, aginous, glutenous and ?active matters separated from the stem - when it is in the green state - leaving only clean or nearly clean fibre - whereas this Pisang or Abaca crudely prepared fibre has not been freed from these extraneous compounds, which have, been dried with - and tanned into the fibre - and therefore that if the Pisang were treated green a different result would be obtained. NB: I find green bamboo infinitely easier to heat than when dried. | ||||