Rubber - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42991 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Castilla elastica | Entry Book Number | 32.1898 | |
| Artefact Name | Rubber | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Trinidad and Tobago | TDWG Region | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Parts Held | Rubber | Geography Description | Trinidad, Botanic Gardens | ||
| Uses | RubberUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hart JH | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Extract of letter to Director signed JH Hart Bot Dept Trinidad, 'I send you by the mail a specimen of Castilloa rubber made by a machine extemporised on the base of a cream separator. The machine has a centrifugal action carrying small cups, . The latex put into these cups are spun for two minutes yield all the rubber on the surface of the fluid, deprived of proteins and albumenoid ligules. The rubber is taken off with a spoon and dried on the porous surface of a ...?... brick. The rubber can, be dry in 3 hours from taking the latex from the tree.' Extract of Report on the above from Messes Hecht Lewis and Kahu (?) dated 21 MIncing Lane, 5th March 1898. This sample shows very good quality indeed, pure & dry and such rubber would be worth today, at least 3/5 d. per lb, perhaps a little more. | ||||