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From:
William Hunter
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Mar 1806
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/23/31, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

[Copy in Smith's hand]

Sends account "of the process for preparing the little cakes of lozenges called by the Malays Gutta Gambeer" [extant]. Rumphius has described the plant from which they are made but erroneously denied their being extracted from it. Sends dried specimen of the plant, two drawings, describing their subjects, and specimen of the lozenges.

"Observations on the drug called Gutta Gambeer", including description of 'Nauclea gambir' [7 pp], and description of 'Nauclea acida' and 'Nauclea sclerophylla'.

Anstruther and Hardwicke.

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The Linnean Society of London