Flask of Para rubberUse: MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber User: Man
TDWG use
MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber
Storage
Bottles, boxes etc
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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