M0001389: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona nitida

Date:: 20 November 1930

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/12/91

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001271-M0001398WT/D/1/20/1/12
        M0001389: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona nitidaWT/D/1/20/1/12/91

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M0001389: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona nitida. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Type specimen: Cinchona.

Description

Black and white reproduction of a plant specimen described as "Cinchona nitida. Type specimen, with Pavon label". The handwritten annotations are by Spanish botanist José Antonio Pavón y Jiménez (1754-1844). The specimen was possibly reproduced as part of the facsimiles lent by The British Museum (Natural History) 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 specimen is listed as exhibit no. 928 in the souvenir catalogue, and is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

20 November 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Related material

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

Notes

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.

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