Nut and fat - Specimen details

Nut and fat - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 66666

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Plant Name 27.01 GUTTIFERAE Pentadesma butyracea Entry Book Number 1.1916
Artefact Name Nut and fat Vernacular Name
Iso Country Not defined TDWG Region Not defined
Parts Held Nut and fat Geography Description West Africa
Uses Nut and fatUse: MATERIALS - Lipids User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Lipids
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Donor Bolton ER Donor No
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Notes: Opuscular source: Letter 380 1915, x p118. Letter from Bolton, Analyst, London, to Hillier - Very many thanks for your letter of 16th inst, I have delayed sending you the sample of the fat from the Koma nuts in order to have an opportunity of comparing, it with the fat which I have extracted from the galls themselves. This I have now done, and find it to be identical, there being about 36% of this fat in the galls. It is not usual to find such a quantity of fat in a gall, and do you think that the c, hemical composition of the fat., which is like kokum butter, gives any clue as to the source,

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