Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10114
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    Female hemp plant

    Date
    1804
    Creator
    Richard Reeve (1780, British) , Printmaker
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X99/4
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 270mm
    width (print): 210mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical studies of the upper part of a stalk of Indian hemp, the female plant of Cannabis sativa, including seed bud clusters and leaves. Two figures lettered D, E, O, P, Q.

    Plate 3 in the monograph On the cultivation and preparation of hemp; as also of an article produced in various parts of India...by Robert Wissett (London, 1804).

    Inscribed “Pl.3 Reeve Scpt.”.

    Robert Wissett (d.1820), Clerk to the Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > India
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