M0002203: Photograph of a Wardian container or case designed by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791–1868)

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Wardian container designed by Nathaniel B. Ward.

Photograph of a Wardian container or case designed by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791–1868), London. The Wardian case was an early type of terrarium, a sealed protective container for plants, which was primarly used for protecting foreign plants imported to Europe from overseas in the 19th century. The reproduction is of the Wardian container lent by the Chelsea Physic Garden, 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 map is listed as exhibit no. 42 in the souvenir catalogue.

25 June 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 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.

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