Fonds COL - James Collins ephemera

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GB 235 COL

Title

James Collins ephemera

Date(s)

  • 1870 - 1879 (Creation)

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Fonds

Extent and medium

1 folder containing 2 labels and 7 bookplates

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Name of creator

(fl.1846-1900)

Biographical history

Economic Botanist: Particular interests in India Rubber and Gutta Percha
Curator Royal Pharmaceutical Society Library and Museum, London 1868-1872
Curator Raffles Library and Museum, Singapore 1874-1877
Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh

Archival history

This small collection of items relating to James Collins was passed to Peter Wilkie by Collins's great-granddaughter Elizabeth Finlay in April 2017.
An accrual consisting of an article by James Collins on Indian rubber and a poem with a reference to the India Museum on its reverse were donated by Elizabeth Finlay in September 2022.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Collins's family via Peter Wilkie.

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Scope and content

2 labels for identifying part of the process of India Rubber / Gutta Percha production and 7 book plates on note paper forming a small collection.
Book plates: Churchill Babington, John Hutton Balfour, Henry Collins, Daniel Cresswell, Sir Compton Domvile, William Watson and 1 unidentified.
Accrual: Article: 'India Rubber' by James Collins, formerly Government Economic Botanist and Librarian, Straits Settlement, etc. as published in 'The Cottager and Artisan', September 1897, pp.107-108, published by the Religious Tract Society, London. Also, a card with a poem on it: 'The Twins' by J. Rushton, on the back of which is a Note about the opening hours of the India Office Museum.

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permission required from RBGE

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Labels are worn, one is torn and adhering to itself. Book plates are foxed but all legible.

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COL

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GB 235

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Partial

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