M0001353: Reproduction of a facsimile of page 19 from the book Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus, 1740 showing the earliest known reference to Cinchona

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, first entry of Quinquina.

Reproduction of a facsimile of page 19 from the book Linne, Carl von: Systema Naturae,1740 (2nd edition) showing the earliest known reference to Cinchona (Quinquina Cond.) by Linnaeus. 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. 877 in the souvenir catalogue, and is not held by Wellcome Collection.

22 October 1930

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.

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