Westafrikanische Kautschuk-Expedition

Name: Westafrikanische Kautschuk-Expedition
Author: Rudolf Schlechter

by Rudolf Schlechter, Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft. Kolonial-Wirtschaftliches Komitee

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Project Gutenberg

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Germany: Kolonial-Wirtschaftliches Komitee, 1900.

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Peter Becker, Reiner Ruf, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2022-10-01

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Rubber Cameroon -- Description and travel Plants -- Cameroon

About the authors

Rudolf Schlechter

1872–1925

A tireless German botanist and orchid expert, he traveled widely to collect and classify plants from Africa, the Americas, Southeast Asia, and Australia. His work helped shape the study of orchids, even though much of his research was later lost in wartime destruction.

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Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft. Kolonial-Wirtschaftliches Komitee

A major force in Germany’s colonial movement, these closely linked organizations pushed colonial expansion through propaganda, publishing, research, and economic projects. Their records now offer a revealing window into how colonial ambitions were promoted and organized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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