M0001706: Photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana from a plantation in Lembang, Java

Date:: 24 March 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/15/100

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001603-M0001706WT/D/1/20/1/15
        M0001706: Photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana from a plantation in Lembang, JavaWT/D/1/20/1/15/100

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M0001706: Photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana from a plantation in Lembang, Java. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Cinchona Ledgeriana. Plantation of Lembang, Java.

Description

Black and white photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana from a plantation in Lembang, Java, 1300 metres above sea-level. The original specimen was possibly a Flückiger herbarium sheet lent by the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berne for Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, an exhibition hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The specimen is possibly listed on page 29 in the souvenir catalogue.

Publication/Creation

24 March 1931

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 may have been 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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