Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>December</span></a> 10, 1855<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> Henry Nicholas Ridley, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Botanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Botanist</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geologist</span></a>, & <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Naturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Naturalist</span></a>, is born.</p><p>The first Director of the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Singapore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singapore</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BotanicGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BotanicGarden</span></a>, Henry single-handedly pioneered Malaya's <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Rubber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rubber</span></a> industry. He encouraged <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Farmers</span></a> to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plant</span></a> rubber <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trees</span></a> & devised <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Ingenious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ingenious</span></a> ways to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Tap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tap</span></a> for <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Latex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latex</span></a> without harming the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tree</span></a>. </p><p>By 1920, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Malaya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malaya</span></a> produced over half the world's rubber. </p><p>And to think it all started with <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Seeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seeds</span></a> Henry collected from 22 <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plants</span></a>...</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/IAmABotanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmABotanist</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Industry</span></a></p>