RefNo | PP/4/6 |
Previous numbers | PP/36/6 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'On a "rennet" ferment contained in the seeds of Withania coagulans' by A [Arthur] Sheridan Lea |
Creator | Lea; Arthur Sheridan (1835-1915); physiologist |
Date | 1883 |
Description | Lea writes: 'The Report of the Royal Gardens at Kew for 1881 contains abstracts of correspondence, in which it was pointed out that, in order to introduce a cheese-making industry in India, some vegetable substitute must be found for the ordinary animal rennet, since cheese made with the latter is unsaleable among the natives. In response to the above “Surgeon-Major Aitchison brought to the notice of the authorities at Kew that the fruit of Puneeria coagulans, a shrub common in Afghanistan and Northern India, possesses the properties of coagulating milk;" and experiments showed that an aqueous extract of the seed-capsules of the above plant does somewhat rapidly coagulate milk. I was recently requested to make some experiments on the seeds of Withania to determine whether they contain a definite ferment with the properties of ordinary rennet, and the applicability of such a ferment to cheese-making purposes.'
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Botany
Received 20 November 1883. Read 22 November 1883. Communicated by [Michael] Foster.
A version of this paper was published in volume 36 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a "rennet" ferment contained in the seeds of withania coagulans'. |
Extent | 10p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1883.0081 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8220 | Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist | 1836 - 1907 |