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Black and white reproduction of a portrait of Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), German physician and chemist. Original mezzotint by J. J. Haid after Antoine Pesne (1683-1757) held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: V0002821

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0001271-M0001398

1 photograph slide transparency; 6.2 x 6.2 cm

M0001271: Reproduction of a portrait of John Richard Farre (1775-1862)

M0001274: Photograph of a Hodson & Baldry chemist in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, early 20th Century

M0001276: Photograph of the house at Lady Halton, near Bromfield, Shropshire, the birthplace of Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830)

M0001279: Photograph of the church of St. Mary's, Bromfield, Shropshire

M0001281: Photograph of the view of St. Mary's Church, Bromfield, Shropshire, from the River Teme

M0001283: Photograph of the interior of St. Mary's Church, Bromfield, Shropshire, showing the tablet in memory of Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830)

M0001284: Photograph of the interior of St. Mary's Church, Bromfield, Shropshire, showing the tablet in memory of Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830) and the chancel and altar

M0001295: Line engraving of a "Plant-Animal Stem" through five geologic eras

M0001296: Line engraving of tree-shaped diagram through eight geological periods (broadly categorised as the "Tertiary" and "Quaternary" periods)

M0001297: Illustration charting the development of life through ten geological periods

M0001298: Illustration charting the development of plant and animal life through eight geological periods

M0001299: Illustration charting the development of life through five geological periods (broadly categorised as the "Pre-Cambrian" and "Palaeozoic" periods)

M0001300: Illustration charting the development of life through three geological periods (broadly categorised as the "Palaeozoic", "Mesozoic" and "Cenozoic" periods)

M0001301: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870). Original photograph by J. Moffat

M0001302: Photograph of a reconstruction of the Lister ward, formerly on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0001303: Two écorché figure engravings depicting the muscles of the back and lateral, captioned as plates V & IX by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770)

M0001304: Two images on one negative showing an écorché figure engraving captioned TAB. I, one of Bernhard Siegfried Albinus' anatomical plates; and a reproduction of a woodcut of King Henry II of France on his deathbed with Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) in attendance

M0001305: Reproduction of a double-page illustration from an unknown 13th century medical herbal

M0001306: Reproduction of a book illustration depicting a Mandrake from a Saxon herbal (Sloan 1975, folio 49a) / M0001306EA: Reproduction of two book illustrations depicting Artemisia and Blackberry, from a Saxon herbal (Sloan 1975, folio 37a)

M0001308: Reproduction of a portrait of Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882), German chemist. Original stipple engraving by Conrad Cook (active 1840) after Conrad L'Allemand (1809-1880)

M0001310: Reproduction of a portrait of Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician

M0001311: Reproduction of a portrait of Marshall Hall (1790-1857), English physician, physiologist and early neurologist

M0001312: Cropped detail of a reproduction of an oval shaped portrait of Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758), French naturalist, botanist and physician

M0001313: Profile portrait of Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), French explorer, geographer, and mathematician

M0001315: Portrait of Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795-1877), French pharmacist

M0001316: Portrait of Stephen Hales (1677-1761), English clergyman who made major contributions to a range of scientific fields including botany, pneumatic chemistry and physiology

M0001317: Reproduction of a portrait of Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French chemist and biologist

M0001318: Portrait of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679), Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. Original lithograph by Pierre Roch Vigneron (1789-1872)

M0001319: Portrait of René Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Original line engraving by N. Habert ( active 1688-1715), after Frans Hals (1584-1666)

M0001320: Book illustration of a bust of Santorio Santorio (1561-1636), Italian physiologist and physician

M0001321: Portrait of Joseph Black (1728-1799), Scottish physicist and chemist. Original stipple engraving by J. (James) Posselwhite (1798-1884)

M0001322: Reproduction of a portrait of John Mayow FRS (1641–1679), English chemist, physician, and physiologist

M0001323: Reproduction of a photographic portrait of J. E. de Vrij (1813-1898), Dutch doctor and pharmaceutical chemist

M0001324: Portrait of Dr H. Karsten, possibly Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817-1908), German botanist and geologist

M0001325: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS (1830-1916), English geographer, explorer, and writer

M0001326: Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864), German-Dutch botanist and geologist

M0001327: Reproduction of a portrait of Richard Spruce (1817-1893), English botanist

M0001328: Reproduction of a portrait of Dr. Justus Karl Hasskarl (1811-1894), German explorer and botanist

M0001329: Half-tone reproduction of a photograph of a group of Jury Cinchonologique du Congrès International Botanique, Amsterdam, April, 1877

M0001330: Reproduction of a portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, or Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, (1769-1859), German geographer, naturalist and explorer

M0001331: Reproduction of a photograph of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883), English chemist and pioneer of the development of quinine

M0001332: Reproduction of a portrait of Luke Howard FRS (1772-1864), British chemist and meteorologist

M0001333: Portrait of Auguste Delondre (1790-1865)

M0001334: Reproduction of an excerpt of a handwritten prescription in Latin

M0001335: Reproduction of an excerpt of a handwritten prescription in Latin from a medical casebook of John Metford M.D. of Northampton, 1656

M0001336: Reproduction of the title page from De cina cina, seu pulvere ad febres syntagma physiologicum… by Gaudenzio Brunacci, 1661

M0001337: Reproduction of the title page of "Febrifugi Peruviani ... pars prior [-pars altera] ..." by Rolando Sturmio, 1659

M0001338: Reproduction of the title page of "Anastasis corticis Peruviae, seu chinae chinae defensio ... contra ventilationes Joannis Jacobi Chifletii, gemitusque Vopisci Fortunati Plempii" by Sebastiano Bado, 1663

M0001339: Reproduction of the title page of "Tumorum omnium praeternaturalium curandorum methodus, nec non febrium putridarum malignarumque curandarum ratio, in quatuor distincta libris" by Valerio Baldutio (active 1608-1611)

M0001345: Portrait of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), French physician and Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 1907

M0001346: Reproduction of a portrait of Carl Linnaeus or Carl von Linne (1741-1783), Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician

M0001347: Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Berthold Carl Seemann (1825–1871), German botanist and traveller

M0001350: Reproduction of a botanical illustration of "Cinchona Peruviana" sent from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated September 1764

M0001351: Reproduction of a facsimile of the "Errata" at the end of the book Genera Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus, 1764

M0001352: Reproduction of a facsimile of page 91 from the book Genera Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus, 1764 showing the entry for "Cinchona"

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

M0001354: Reproduction of a portrait of Thomas Willis FRS (1621-1675), English doctor. Line engraving by R. White after D. Loggan

M0001356: Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Justus Karl Hasskarl (1811-1894), German explorer and botanist

M0001357: Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Pieter van Leersum (1854-1920)

M0001358: Reproduction of a portrait of Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808 - 1882), Dutch biologist, botanist and plant collector

M0001359: Reproduction of a portrait of Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795-1877), French pharmacist

M0001360: Portrait of Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842), British botanist

M0001361: Reproduction of a portrait of Carl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862), German-Dutch botanist

M0001362: Reproduction of a portrait of J. E. de Vrij (1813-1898), Dutch doctor and pharmaceutical chemist

M0001363: Oval-shaped portrait of Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842), French chemist

M0001364: Reproduction of a portrait of W.C. van Gorkom (1868-1953)

M0001365: Photograph of the "Prins Frederik" or the Prince Frederick, the ship which took the first consignment of cinchona plants from South America to Java in 1885

M0001366: Photograph of Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809–1864), outside his dwelling in Java, Indonesia

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

M0001368: Reproduction of botanical specimens of "Cinchona Peruviana" sent by José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), dated 24th September 1764, with additional page folded over to the right

M0001369: Reproduction of a photograph of the Group of Jury Cinchonologique du Congrès International Botanique, Amsterdam, April, 1877

M0001370: Reproduction of a portrait of Juan [John] de Lugo (1583–1660), Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal

M0001371: Reproduction of a photograph of Cinchona officinalis

M0001372: Reproduction of a photograph of Cinchona micrantha

M0001373: Reproduction of a photograph of Cinchona nitida

M0001374: Reproduction of a letter from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated 24th September 1764

M0001375: Reproduction of a letter from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated 3rd October 1767

M0001376: Reproduction of a letter from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated 15th May 1770

M0001377: Reproduction of a letter from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated 6th June 1773

M0001378: Reproduction of a letter from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) dated 8th February 1777

M0001379: Reproduction of a letter from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)

M0001380: Reproduction of a letter from José Celestino Mútis (1732-1808) to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)

M0001382: Reproduction of a facsimile of page 90 from the book Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus, 1748, showing a reference to Cinchona

M0001383: Reproduction of a facsimile of page 172 from the book Species Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus, 1753, showing printed reference to Cinchona officinalis

M0001384: Reproduction of a facsimile of page 79 from the book Genera Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus, 1754, showing reference to "Cinchona, Quinquina. Condamin. Act. Gall., 1738"

M0001385: Reproduction of a facsimile of page 97 from the book Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus, 1756, showing reference to Cinchona

M0001386: Reproduction of a facsimile of a hand-sketched map of South India by Sir Clements R. Markham, 1865

M0001387: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona micrantha

M0001388: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona ovata

M0001389: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona nitida

M0001390: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona stenocarpa

M0001391: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona hirsuta

M0001392: Reproduction of a type specimen of Cinchona lucumaefolia, Cinchona condaminea

M0001393: Reproduction of an autograph letter from John Hawkins to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) dated 8th February 1794

M0001394: Botanical illustration of Quina Quina Prima, 1742

M0001395: Botanical illustration of Peruvian bark tree, 1739

M0001396: First page of an invoice in José Pavón's handwriting to Aylmer Bourke Lambert for the sale of part of his collection of Cinchona specimens

M0001397: Second page of an invoice in José Pavón's handwriting to Aylmer Bourke Lambert for the sale of part of his collection of Cinchona specimens

M0001398: Botanical illustration of Cinchona floribunda

M0001314: Portrait of Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), German physician and chemist. Original mezzotint by J. J. Haid after Antoine Pesne (1683-1757)

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M0001314: Portrait of Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), German physician and chemist. Original mezzotint by J. J. Haid after Antoine Pesne (1683-1757)

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