THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TM JULY, 1876.
9. VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES FOR PAPER.
The plants, or vegetable matters from which specimens of paper are desired, are:
Straw; Wood; Esparto or Sparte-fibre (Lygeum Spar- tum); Alfa-fibre (Stipa tenacissima); Reed (Psamma are- naria) grown on Dutch or foreign downs or sandhills; Bamboo; Paper-Mulberry-tree (Broussonetia papyri- fera); Kapok (Seeddown of Eriodendron anfractuosnin); New-Zeeland Flax (Phormium tenax); stems and refuse of Pisangs or Bananas (Musa); Pineapple-fibre; Agave- fibre; refuse of Cotton and Flax-spinneries; Paper-Daphine (Daphne papyrifera); Ricepaper-plant (Aralia papyri- fera). Moreover any other vegetable matters, not meu- tioned here, provided they be of plants capable of being cultivated and reaped on a large scale.
To be sent in:
1. Dried specimens of the plants, from which the paper
is made.
2. Samples of the raw paper material, and of the paper
manufactured therefrom.
Required:
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3. A statement of the manner of rearing and managing the plants, of the cost of operation, and the prospects of the paper-manufacture from the different substances. 4. Models and drawings illustrating the process of
manufacture.
Further is desired:
5. A collection of samples of vegetable substances, em- ployed from the remotest period to the present time for writing purposes, forming collectively a complete series, from which an historical and ethnographical view of paper-industry can be obtained.
6. A collection of writings on paper and paper-manufac-
7.
ture.
A complete catalogue of such; also of such as occur in periodicals.
8. A statistical review of the paper-manufacture, with
observations and deductions of its prospects.
9. Coloured drawings of the plants yielding substances
for paper-making
10. CEREALS.
A bundle of ears of all cereals, cultivated in Nether- land, accompanied by a sample of kilo, of grain, in a white
Required:
11. CATECHU
1. Catechu from Acacia Catechu, as occurring in com-
2.
merce.
Catechu from Areca Catechu, as occurring in com-
merce.
3. Catechu from Uncaria Gambir, as occurring in com-
merce.
Required:
1. Mexican Vanilla.
3.
a. of spontaneous growth (Cimarona),
b. obtained by culture (Corriente).
12.
Vanilla from the Dutch East-India possessions. Vanilla from the Dutch West-India possessions, with statement on each sample, of the species of Vouilla
glass, of each of the bundles exhibited. Further a state- ment of the place where, and the description of soil on which, the cereals were reared.
(CACHOC )
4. Other vegetable productions, containing Tannic Acid, which are or might be made available for technic purposes.
N.B. It is desirable to exhibit all these kinds of Catechu with the substances, from which they are obtained, and the plants yielding those substances.
VANILLA.
4.
from which it was obtained, and a blossoming sprig of the plants, either dried or preserved in spirits. American Vanilla, derived from other plants than the Vanilla Planifolia, with a statement on each sample of the species of Vanilla which produced it, and a sprig, dried or preserved in spirits, of the plants from which it was produced.
13. RHUBARE.
The derivation of genuine Chinese Rhubarb has been successively referred to various species of the geuns Rheum. The latest researches claim the Rheum Offici- nale as the parent.
Required:
Vanilla grown in Europe.
It is therefore desirable that a thoroughly well-grown root be exhibited, showing the distinctive marks of good Chinese Rhubarb, and to which must be attached a suffi- cient portion of the parent-plant, to determine it satisfac- torily.
14. SARSAPARILLA.
Well-prepared (either dried or otherwise prepared ) specimens of plants yielding Sarsaparilla for commerce, with the proviso that there be attached one or more sound roots, adapted for a comparative research.
The objects are required to be in a blossoming or fruit- bearing condition.
Attention will be paid equally to objects of spontaneous growth and those obtained from culture.
Thus drawn up by the organizing Committee, Amsterdam, August 14th, 1875.
J. H. KRELAGE, Chairman.
F. W. VAN EEDEN,
C. GLIM.
H. F. R. HUBRECHT.
C. A. J. A. OUDEMANS.
C. J. VAN DER OUDERMEULEN.
W. F. R. SURINGAR.
G. F. WESTERMAN.
H. GROENEWEGEN, Secretury.
The Committee will gratefully receive any proposals or observations concerning their labours, as marks of interest in
their scheme.
H. GROENEWEGEN, Secretary.
0. Oetewalerweg, AMSTERDAM.
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