Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49265 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Calotropis sp | Entry Book Number | 32.1916 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Edwards Leoline, 81 St Margarets Rd, Twickenham | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: From a bale valued at 5.5d per lb. From Leoline Edwards 81 St Margarets Road, Twickenham, London S.W. 14th July 1916. Reg. Trade Mark 'Quidos'. To Mr Holland, The Museum, Kew Gardens: Dear Sir, as promised I have much pleasure in sending yo, u a small sample out the bale of akund purchased by me on the open market at a cost of 5.5d per lb. I have used it for stuffing military sleeping bags of my own special design, I have as well made tests of it for buoyancy and find it particularly good. Re, garding the floss Asclepias fruticosa about which we had a talk I have been making some tests it is peculiar in giving a faint yellow colour to water are much the same as the kapoks, Bombax, & Akund but it is much inferior to these in buoyancy. Thanking y, ou for your kind attention. Leoline Edwards. Thanks Herewith J.H.H. | ||||