M0001600: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona pubescens (Herb. HK)

Black and white photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona pubescens (Herb. HK). The original specimen was lent from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930, an exhibition hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The specimen is listed as exhibit no. 346 in the souvenir catalogue.

20 January 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.

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