M0001367: Reproduction of a botanical specimen of "Cinchona Peruviana" with handwritten annotations, sent from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated September 1764

Date:: 31 October 1930

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/12/70

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        M0001367: Reproduction of a botanical specimen of "Cinchona Peruviana" with handwritten annotations, sent from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated September 1764WT/D/1/20/1/12/70

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M0001367: Reproduction of a botanical specimen of "Cinchona Peruviana" with handwritten annotations, sent from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated September 1764. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Specimens of cinchona peruviana.

Description

Black and white reproduction of a botanical specimen of "Cinchona Peruviana" with handwritten annotations, sent from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), dated September 1764. The specimen was possibly reproduced as part of the facsimiles 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. 876[B] in the souvenir catalogue. The original specimen is held by The Linnean Society of London. Related images: M0001368

Publication/Creation

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