Gatah Percha - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51033 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Palaquium sp | Entry Book Number | 24.1983.13 | |
| Artefact Name | Gatah Percha | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Singapore | TDWG Region | Singapore | ||
| Parts Held | Gatah Percha | Geography Description | Malaya, Singapore | ||
| Uses | Gatah PerchaUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat Hist) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1846 | Donor Notes | McGillivray Jx0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Specimen of the Gatah Percha an exudation from an ? described tree growing near Singapore, given ? Mr Crista ? Lungeon H.E.J.C.S. It has been locally used for making bougies, elastic, catheters, etc and some official account of it by Dr Mon, tgomery ? and Mr Clelland is to be found in one of the Indian periodicals. I have to request that Mr Gray will give them to some museum of Materia Medica as specimens like the present are rarely to be procured, the substance being manufactured immediately, into whips from which the bougies have hitherto been made. Signed J McGillivray. | ||||