M0001352: Reproduction of a facsimile of page 91 from the book Genera Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus, 1764 showing the entry for "Cinchona"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Linnaeus, Genera Plantarum: Cinchona.

Reproduction of a facsimile of page 91 from the book Linne, Carl von: Genera Plantarum,1764 (6th edition) showing the entry for "Cinchona". The page was possibly reproduced as part of the facsimiles lent by The Linnean Society of London and exhibited in Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930 hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The facsimile is listed as exhibit no. 884 (a) in the souvenir catalogue, and is not held by Wellcome Collection.

22 October 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item was exhibited in

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.