Dillenia indica leaves were collected from the campus of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, and were identified by Dr. H. B. Singh, Scientist F & Head, Raw Material Herbarium & Museum, NISCAIR, New Delhi, India.
The leaves of Plumeria alba were collected from Chaudhary Devi Lal Park, in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India, February 2011, and identified by Dr. H. B. Singh, Head of Raw Materials Herbarium and Museum (RHMD), New Delhi.
The British trustees were Sir Charles Hambro, the head of the British Raw Materials Mission in Washington, D.C., and Frank Lee from HM Treasury.
That's an indicator both of slumping domestic demand and, because imports include raw materials heading to manufacturers, of still worse export numbers to come.
The ONS figures suggest that consumption of raw materials per head in Britain is now among the lowest in Europe, behind only Spain.
Jeremy Pettman and his deputy head brewer Rebecca Adams believe in using the finest raw materials for their beers.
"We don't have factories, we don't have raw materials: we just have people," says Salvador Ventriglia, head of human resources for Citibank in Buenos Aires.
Krisana Kraisintu, the head of the factory, told me that Bristol also prevented the producers of the raw materials for ddI from selling to her.
Malcolm Preston, the global head of sustainability at PwC, said: "Everybody has suddenly realised that the scarcity of raw materials was much worse than they thought.
As its head from August 1914 to the spring of 1915, he ensured the conservation and distribution of raw materials essential to the war effort.
