James Collins ephemera

• Reference:GB 235 COL
• Dates of Creation:1870 - 1879
• Name of Creator:
  Collins, James
• Physical Description:
  1 folder containing 2 labels and 7 bookplates

• 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.

• Administrative / 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

• Access Information

  Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/

• Acquisition Information

  Collins's family via Peter Wilkie.

• Note

  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

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

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

• Conditions Governing Use

  Permission required from RBGE

• Custodial 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.

• Additional Information

  published

  Partial

  COL

  GB 235

• Subjects

  India Rubber

  Gutta Percha

• Geographical Names

  Singapore