Replacement of expedition staff

[Begins:] Resumen. Habiendo resuelto el Augusto P[adr]e de V.M. que se procediese á una expedicion Botanica en las Provincias de Nueva España [&c.]. Produced in Mexico. A copy of a minute addressed to the Crown summarising the documents concerning the removal of the incompetent and querulous pharmacist Jayme Senseve from the staff of the Expedition, his replacement by the physician José Mociño [1757-1820], and the consequent re-arrangement of salaries. It includes details of other salaries and of the appointment of the surgeon José Maldonado as dissector. Senseve was reinstated by Charles IV in 1791, and the new appointments disallowed. [See Rickett (1947)].

1790-1791

2 ll. 20.5 x 15 cm. Bound.

Purchased 1962.

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.