WRIGHT, Herbert.

£225 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Hevea Brasiliensis or Para Rubber. First edition. Uncommon, just 5 locations on Library Hub, WorldCat adds 7 further. This copy inscribed "To I.H. Burkill Esqre. from the Author". Wright was one of the leading authorities on tropical agriculture of his day, described in his Times obituary as "one of the foremost figures in the rubber industry". Educated at the Royal College of Science, Wright became scientific assistant director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Ceylon, later acting director, and 1900-6 controller of the Government Experimental Station in Ceylon. From 1907 to 1917 he was editor of the India Rubber Journal in London. The recipient, Isaac Henry Burkill, was a Cambridge-educated tropical botanist who worked in India and Singapore where he was director of the Botanic Gardens, carrying forward the work of his predecessor, Henry Ridley, in the area of para rubber. Burkill was the author of the authoritative Dictionary of Economic Products of Malay Peninsula (1935).

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