Chicle Gum - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 50882 | |||||
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Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Manilkara zapota | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Chicle Gum | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Mexico | TDWG Region | Mexico | ||
| Parts Held | Chicle Gum | Geography Description | Mexico | ||
| Uses | Chicle GumUse: FOOD User: Not defined | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Colonial Office | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 17/04/1876 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Purchased in New York See letter April 13.76 Chicle gum (Lucuna glycyphloem ?) Mouesia ? Known also in the New York market as Mexican gum and rubber juice and is used in combination with India Rubber, mixed with rubber however it makes thes, ubstance too brittle for insulating purposes. It ?? not find its way to the English market. See letter from Siemens Bros to Prof Dyer dated April 27th 76 Opuscular source: For Mouesia See Pharm Journal p.125 187 Vol IV Lucuma glycyphloeum = Chrysophyllu, m barauheim Extract of letter to the Earl of Dufferin Governor General of Canada from Mr A Kirkwood of the Crown Lands Office Ontario dated Torento Jan 3 1876 I am induced to write to your excellncy about the gum called Chicle a sample of which was sentto, me in 1872 by Messrs Latassa and Co of New York. It was imported from Mexico and was the produce of a tree called Zapota, doubtless of the order Sapotaceae which produces Gutta Percha but the specific name was not given. My correspondents state that the, gum Chicle was used in New York for manufacturing chewing gum, but were under the impression that firm there had discovered an important use for it in combination with rubber and for insulating cable wires. The price at that time 40 pounds sterling per 1, 00 lbs net cash. It was thought that an essential oil adapted for perfumery could be extracted from this gum and it was stated that a substance known in the materia Medica as Monesia was extracted from it. Some experiments were also made with it, with a v, iew of manufacturing a paint for vessels bottoms. | ||||