The cultural history of South Sea pearls - William Saville-Kent

Cultural history of South Sea Pearls Pearl transformed modern industry.
South Sea pearls were made of silver and gold lip, lip "Pinctada Maxima oysters in Australian waters since time began. For thousands of years, native fishermen plunged oysters natural South Sea pearls with their meat, shells and beads for trade and tribute. Unfortunately Like all precious things, were at the end of the 1800's in the modern world, but all of Australia's natural marine South Pearl exhausted. But the north-east coast of Australia, the method has been searched, not only revive the Australian South Sea Pearl industry and production worldwide.
British marine biologist William Saville-Kent, has served two places such as Australia, the Commissioner responsible for fisheries, one in Queensland and Western Australia. introduced in 1891, while Queensland Iceland on Thursday, Saville-Kent was experimenting with an oyster's mantle tissue transplants, the nucleus Shell, in another oyster's mantle. This led to the formation of bag pearls, pearl is made for the nucleus to form spherical pearls.
As a pioneer in the field of art, William Saville-Kent, as a scientist and the commissioner without hearing referred to other stakeholders working in the pearl industry in the northeast of Australia. While the pearling industry in Australia for many tens of thousands of people, including Aborigines, Europeans, Chinese, Malay and Japanese, in particular, were under Tatsuhei Mise and Nishikawa Tokishi.
It should be noted that many sectors Pearl find the lyrics properly credit the Japanese contractor Tatsuhei mice, Kokichi Mikimoto Tokishi Nishikawa and culture methods of the invention in its infancy. To date, William Saville-Kent is not officially recognized as the father of this process and cycle as a result of artificial pearls.
In 1907, as Mies and Nishikawa applied to patent the method of Saville Kent, but recognize they are competing with each other to the patent form, and the name "method of Mis-Nishikawa." That same year, probably in search of sponsors, Kokichi Mikimoto Nishikawa wrote to him about his discovery, "... I am responsible for the preparation of Japanese pearl is the reason why and how a pearl is formed in the tissues of oysters ..." (GF Coontz: "The book '1908 Pearl).
In 1916, Mikimoto and Nishikawa joined forces and went to the large scale use of Saville-Kent, an original technique used for Akoya "fucata Pinctada" cultured pearl oysters. Implementation of this revolutionary procedure marks the beginning of the boom in the pearl industry in Japan. Until 1935, Japan was more than 10 million Pearl produces each year.