Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-5lx2p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-04T14:52:14.453Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

XXVIII.—On a Red Resin from, Dracæna Cinnabari (Balf. fil.), Socotra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

J. J. Dobbie
Affiliation:
Assistant to the Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow

Extract

The resin to which the following paper refers was obtained by Professor Bayley Balfour from a species of Dracæna which he discovered in Socotra during his visit to that island in the year 1880, and to which he has given the name of Dracæna Cinnabari. In outward appearance and in general physical properties the resin differs from the varieties known commercially under the name of dragon's blood. With the view of ascertaining if these differences depend upon difference of chemical composition, we undertook, at Professor Balfour's request, to make an examination of the resin.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1883

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)