De Myristica [Nutmeg]

De Myristica [Nutmeg]
by Carl Peter Thunberg
Adopted for Conservation by
April G. Shelford
in honor of Karl Shelford
on February 12, 2017
De myristica Nutmeg

De myristica : consensu exp. Fac. Med. Upsal.

By Carl Peter Thunberg. Upsaliæ: Litteris Director Joh. Edman, [1788].

The spices nutmeg and mace (from the seed and its lacy covering, respectively) come from several species of trees in the genus Myristica indigenous to the Banda Islands in Indonesia – the famous Spice Islands of history and lore. They are the focus of this university dissertation written by Professor Carl Peter Thunberg. In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, professors wrote the dissertations; the student’s job was to explicate and defend it and pay for its publication. SIL holds dozens of these botanical and zoological papers by the great systematist Carl von Linné (Linnaeus) at the University of Uppsala and his student and successor Thunberg.

Condition and Treatment: 

A pamphlet housed in a brittle pamphlet folder.  Conservators will remove the pamphlet from the folder and disbind it. The paper will be washed in de-ionized water to remove acid deposits. A new housing will be created for the pamphlet.

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Adoption Type: Preserve for the Future