Silk Cotton Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49232 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Calotropis gigantea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Silk Cotton Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Indonesia | TDWG Region | Indonesia | ||
| Parts Held | Silk Cotton Fibre | Geography Description | Jawa, Asia-Tropical, Malesia | ||
| Uses | Silk Cotton FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dunlop Brothers & Co, 49 Fenchurch St | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1914 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Opuscular source: (Letter 215, 1914:IX.p.76) 11/05/1914, Messrs Dunlop Brothers & Co. Acknowledge the receipt of their letter of the 8th instant, and in reply to say that the sample of 'Silk Cotton' submitted for identification appears to be 'Mudar Floss, ' a seed hair fibre obtained from Calotropis gigantea. Some particulars of this plant are given in 'The Commercial Products of India', by Sir G. Watt, pp.205-208 (Mr John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1908). Java. Opuscular source: ' We thank you for, the information you have sent us, but the only difficulty with us is that in our long experience of silk cotton, we make a slight difference between the sample which we sent to you ant the sample of silk cotton received from India, and were rather of the, opinion that they did not come from the same plant, or even from the same family. The sample which we sent to you gives us the idea of being a much more favourable cotton to spin, but we are probably wrong in our views, and we again tender our warmest th, anks for your kind reply'. (Dunlop Brothers & Co. 49 Fenchurch Street, London May 12th 1914 to Director. | ||||