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by Joe Jackson


  river otters (perros de agua)

  Rogers (Wickham’s Orinoco

  companion)

  Roman (Jesuit priest in Venezuela)

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  rosewood

  Ross, Sir John Clark

  rosy periwinkle, biopiracy of

  Rough Notes of a Journey through the Wilderness from Trinidad to Pará, Brazil (Wickham)

  Rousseau, Henri

  Royal Botanic Gardens, in Calcutta

  Royal Botanic Gardens-Kew:

  cinchona seeds stolen for

  directors of

  economic botany mission of

  Far Eastern rubber stock sent from

  India Office collaboration of

  plant collections of

  public access to

  rubber cultivation at

  staff of

  as state institution

  Wickham’s relations with, with

  Wickham’s seeds brought to

  Royal Colonial Club

  Royal Geographical Society

  rubber:

  annual supplies of

  in Brazil, see Brazilian rubber trade

  commercial uses of

  curing of

  harvesting of

  initial European exposure to

  rubber (cont.)

  labor abuses in collection of

  military uses of

  names of

  prices of

  purity of

  speculative investments in

  synthetic

  types of ; see also specific rubber-plant species

  U.S. as largest consumer of

  vulcanization of

  worldwide production levels of

  Rubber Age

  Rubber Booms

  Sachs. F.

  Sackville, Sir Lionel

  Saldaña Rocca, Benjamín

  Salisbury, Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord

  Sanción, La

  sand flies (zancudos)

  San Fernando de Atabapo, Venezuela

  Santana

  Santarém, Brazil

  Amazon-Tapajós juncture at

  confederado settlements near

  English school in

  hevea seeds smuggled through

  Jesuit mission in

  racial history of

  soybean cultivation near

  Santos, Roberto

  São Paulo Railway Company

  Sapium

  sarrapia tree (Dipteryx odorata)

  sarsaparilla

  Saturday of Glory

  saudade

  sauva ants

  schistomiasis

  Scholz, Waldeman

  Schroeder Lessa, Luis Gonzaga

  Schurz, William

  science:

  British public spending on

  economic benefits of

  as male domain

  Scully, William

  sea cucumber (bêche-de-mer)

  Sephardic Jews

  Sepoy Mutiny (1857)

  sequoia trees

  seringa (syringe rubber)

  seringal (ciringal)

  seringueiros

  Serique, Julio David

  Serique family

  Serra de Humayta

  sharks

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  Siccama Plan (1880)

  silk grass (arghan) (Bromelia magdalemae) (Colombia pita fiber)

  silk moths

  Silva Coutinho, João Martins da

  Sinclair, Upton

  Singapore, hevea cultivation in

  siphonia

  Sisimitos

  Sitio de Taperhina

  slavery

  smallpox

  Smith, Herbert H.

  snakes

  snowy egrets

  Society for the Protection of Birds

  Solomon Islands

  Somme, First Battle of (1916)

  soybean cultivation

  Spanish Conquest

  Speke, John Hanning

  sponges, farming of

  Spruce, Richard

  on Amazon Forest

  background of

  on Brazilian rubber trade

  in cinchona theft effort

  on Guaharibos tribe

  Pará fine source sought by

  on rubber collection

  in Santarém area

  Sri Lanka, see Ceylon

  Starley, John Kemp

  steam navigation

  Stevenson Rubber Restriction Plan

  stingray, Potamotrygon

  Stonequist, Everett

  Storach, W. M.

  Straits Settlements

  strangler fig (matapalo)

  streetcars, electric

  Stroop, Allie

  subways

  sucuruju (anaconda)

  sugarcane plantations

  in Australia

  in Brazil

  Surinam, rubber industry wiped out in

  Swayne, Sir Eric

  Swietenia mahogani (mahogany)

  syringe rubber (seringa)

  Talking Cross -50n

  Tamils

  Tapajós (Tupaya) Indians

  Tapajós Pará Rubber Forests Ltd.

  Tapajós River

  Taparitos

  Taperhina

  teak

  tea plantations

  Tears of the Tree (Loadman)

  Teatro Amazonas

  Teatro do Paz

  telegraph wires, rubber insulation of

  telephone service

  Temash River

  temblador (Electrophorous electricus) (electric eel)

  Temple, Hercules

  termites

  terra firme

  terra preta do Indio (Indian black earth)

  Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner

  Thomson, Thomas

  Thwaites, H. K.

  timbó

  tin mines

  ti-ti monkeys

  tires, rubber

  tobacco cultivation

  toldo

  tonina

  tonka beans

  toothpick fish (candiru)

  Torquemada, Juan de

  toucans

  tradeguns

  transatlantic cables

  Transcontinental Express

  tree frogs

  trees:

  maximum sizes of

  in sacred mythology

  see also specific tree species

  Trinidad

  tropical forests:

  clear-cutting of

  dangers and discomforts in

  ecological functions of

  fertility of

  insect life of

  native mythologies of

  rainy season in

  sounds of

  species diversity of

  strangler fig of

  transcendent states induced in

  tree-growth patterns of

  vines of

  see also Amazon Basin

  Truth

  tuberculosis

  Tucker, Quincy

  tulips

  Tulum, Talking Cross in

  Tupaya (Tapajós) Indians

  Tupi Guarani

  turkey buzzards

  Turneffe

  turtles

  tutuma (calabash)

  Tzantzen

  Uapés River

  ubá canoes

  Ule (Castilloa elastica)

  ultraviolet rays

  United North and South Oil Company

  United States Rubber Company

  uti possidetis

  uruba-tinga

  vampire bats

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius

  Van Roosmiler, Marc

  Vaughan, James

  Venezuela

  civil warfare in

  confederado refugee group in

  gold mining in

  governors of

  northern llanos vs. southern forests of

  rubber collection in

 
tribal peoples of

  Ventura (lancha pilot)

  Victoria, Queen of England

  Victoria amazonia

  Victorian era

  Victoria Peak

  Villares, Jorge

  vincristine

  vulcanization

  vultures

  Walker, William

  Wallace, Alfred Russel

  Wardian greenhouses

  Watkins (Wickham’s confederado travel companion)

  Weir, John

  Wetherall, Lucille

  white rubber (mbungu) vine (Landolphia)

  White Women’s Protection Ordinance (1926)

  Wickham, Christine Francis Pedley

  Wickham, Harriette Jane, see Pilditch, Harriette Jane Wickham

  Wickham, Harriette Johnson

  in Brazil

  millinery business of

  Wickham, Harry

  Wickham, Henry (father)

  Wickham, Henry Alexander (son)

  biographer of

  biological piracy of

  in Brazil

  in British Honduras

  childhood of

  in Conflict Islands

  death of

  family background of

  family members taken to Brazil with

  finances of

  health problems of

  Hevea brasiliensis drawings of

  homes built by

  Honduran government employment of

  India/Ceylon posting sought by

  Kew relations with

  knighthood bestowed on

  later years of

  marriage of

  Mayan negotiations with

  mountain-climbing experience of

  native lifestyle adopted by

  in Nicaragua

  on optimal growth conditions for hevea

  in Papua New Guinea

  personality of

  Wickham, Henry Alexander (son) (cont.)

  physical appearance of

  plantations of

  public acknowledgment of achievement of -42n

  in Queensland

  rubber-tapping work of

  self-promotion efforts of

  solitude and loneliness of

  on tribal peoples

  in Venezuela

  writings of

  Wickham, John Joseph Edward

  Wickham, Joseph

  Wickham, Sophie Phillips

  Wickham, Violet Case Carter:

  background of

  in British Honduras

  in Conflict Islands

  death of

  health problems of

  marriage of

  memoirs of

  on native peoples

  personality of

  physical appearance of

  in Queensland

  on rubber biopiracy

  servants of

  in successive farm efforts

  travels described by

  on Wickham’s career

  wilderness housekeeping of

  on wildlife

  Wilken, W. A.

  William Henry Clarence, King of the Miskito Nation

  William of Wykeham

  Wilson, E. O.

  Wolfe, Thomas

  Woolwà

  World War I,

  World War II,

  Wycherley, P. R.

  xeros

  Xtabay

  Yanomami tribe

  Yberra Ortol, Filipe

  yellow fever

  Yucatán Peninsula

  British Honduran border with

  violence on

  zamora

  zancudos (sand flies)

  Zebu cattle

 

 

 


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