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1996 IUB Colombia Cl-2 Reproduction
1996 IUB Colombia Cl-2 Reproduction is a reproduction accession of Cannabis indica grown from seed recorded as coming from Colombia. It is known from one herbarium sheet that Karl W. Hillig made in 1996 from a plant grown in a greenhouse of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana. The label gives Hillig's parallel code Cl-2 and names the seed source as a drug seizure by the police of Bloomington, Indiana. The herbarium of Indiana University holds the sheet as catalogue IND-0149617, with the university number 148879.
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Hem Chunder Kerr
Hem Chunder Kerr was an Indian officer in the service of the Government of Bengal who compiled two official enquiries into Bengal commodity crops: a report on jute, published in 1874, and the Report on the Cultivation of, and Trade in, Gánjá in Bengal, which he submitted to the Board of Revenue on 2 April 1877.
The ganja report was the first detailed official account of ganja cultivation in the Ganja Mahal of Naogaon, and it remained the standard description for the rest of the century. The House of Commons ordered it reprinted in 1893, and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, reporting the following year, called it the basis of the information furnished by most of its witnesses. Kerr himself gave written evidence to the Commission in 1893–94, by which time he had retired from the grade of Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector and was serving as Sub-Registrar of Sealdah.
Official papers of the 1870s call him Baboo Hem Chunder Kerr, with the honorific then used for Bengali gentlemen in government service. A Government of Bengal resolution of 5 February 1873 records his substantive appointment as Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector. In October 1876 he was serving at Alipore, from which he was released to take up the ganja enquiry. By the time the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission took his evidence in 1893–94 he had retired from that grade and held the post of Sub-Registrar of Sealdah; the Commission's heading also gives his caste, Kayasth.
The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, observing that his administration lacked industrial statistics, called in a resolution of 4 February 1873 for an account of how jute was grown and traded. …
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