Rubber - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 44113 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Hevea brasiliensis | Entry Book Number | 9.1904 | |
| Artefact Name | Rubber | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Ghana | TDWG Region | Ghana | ||
| Parts Held | Rubber | Geography Description | Ghana, Aburi | ||
| Uses | RubberUse: MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Latex/Rubber | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Botanic Garden, Aburi | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Johnson WHx0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Buiscuit - rubber. Prepared from trees growing in the Botanical Gardens, Aburi. Para Rubber Scrap - prepared as above. Gold Coast. Opuscular source: Kew Memo re: Para rubber from Aburi Gold Coast, received for report from Mr W H Johnson 16, .2.04. Director; The samples of rubber have been submitted to Messrs Hecht-Levis & Kahn 36 Fenchurch Street E.C. who report very favourably upon them. They consider both samples to be of excellent quality, well cured, free from impurities & quite equal to, that received at the present time from Ceylon. Such rubber readily finds a market here & would realise at the present time 4/6 to 4/7 per lb. for the biscuit & 3/6 to 3/8 for the scrap. Its very important that rubber should be thoroughly dry befor shippi, ng. | ||||