Experiments on the dyeing properties of lichens / by W. Lauder Lindsay.

  • William Lauder Lindsay
Date:
[1854]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Experiments on the dyeing properties of lichens / by W. Lauder Lindsay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [If commanders and masters of ships were aware of the value of these plants, which cover many a rocky coast and barren island, they might, with a slight expenditure of time and labour, bring home with them such a quantity of these insignificant looking plants as would realize considerable sums, to the direct advantage of themselves and the ship- owners ; and consequently to the advantage of the state. It is with the view of inciting those to whom the opportunity may offer, of gathering a valuable article of commerce, the value of which they would little suspect from its external aspect, and inducing the owners of vessels to direct the at- tention of their officers to this subject, that I subjoin some simple methods (says Dr Lindsay) of detecting the various Lichens.]