Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 77215 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Cinchona sp | Entry Book Number | 21.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Bahamas | TDWG Region | Bahamas | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | San Salvador, Central America | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 22/08/1983 | Donor Notes | Lewis & Peach, through Foster (Secretary of Society of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) & D. Hanbury (Hanbury Collection), c.1855 | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Accompanying letter is dated 15 December 1855, from Foster (Secretary of the Society of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) to Daniel Hanbury and reads: 'Sir, The Council of this Society have received from one of their Colonial Corresondents some specimens of, bark known in the country as Chincona [sic]. I am directed to send you a sample of it and to express the hope of the Council that they may be favoured with a report from you on it. In the country whence it comes, it is used as a febrifuge & it is imagined, that it may contain Quinine or some analogous substance or a subsititue for it. It can be had in considerable quantities, if commercially worth importing. Should the specimen enclosed be worth your acceptance I am to beg that you will retain it. I regret, that it is so small, but the whole quantity sent admits of my sending no more.' Botanical identification inferred from vernacular name and geography. Card catalogue entry indexed under 'Native Name Only - Barks.' | ||||