Frosted surface or Givre on Vanilla

Date:
1914
Reference:
WMS/Amer.145
Part of:
Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica
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Description

Report on the cause of the frosted surface, or, Givre on Vanilla. London. Holograph draft (on rectos only) with a typed transcript, apparently unpublished. The paper regards the presence of the glucoside vanillin as dependent on the ripeness of the pod when gathered and on the treatment to which it is afterwards subjected; contemporary methods of gathering and curing are described.

Publication/Creation

1914

Physical description

ff. 15; 5 [typescript] 20x16.5; 26x20.5 cm. Unbound.

Acquisition note

Presented 1935 by Mrs. Holmes

Finding aids

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

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  • 89200