Cinchona Tercentenary Exhibition

This exhibition was mounted to mark the first recognised use of Cinchona bark by Europeans, and illustrated the history of Cinchona from its introduction up to its contemporary use in pharmaceutical research. A number of receptions were held during the exhibition.

The series includes papers relating to the mounting of the exhibition, associated receptions and the production of the catalogue. There is also material generated by Ida Wright, employed from x to x to research the history of Cinchona in Spanish libraries and archives. Her papers include monthly reports and correspondence [also to be found at WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.345], a card index of books and manuscripts with related files of transcribed and translated documents. Further notes, transcripts and translations relate to research by Uribe, Haggis and Georgievsky at libraries including at the British Museum. There is also a number of transcripts and translations of documents exhibited and described in the printed catalogue. Exhibit numbers, as given in the catalogue, are noted here when known, although the exact provenance of some items has become obscured.

Large sections of this series, mostly relating to research for the exhibition, had been removed from the Wellcome archives and placed in the WMS department of the Library, in the process of which their dates, reasons for production and original place in the archives have been obscured or lost. The material has now been reunited in a restructured series, and WMS reference numbers are noted.

Press cuttings relating to this exhibition are to be found in WA/HMM/PR/3-8

See also WA/HMM/EX/C for files re Exhibition; WA/HSW/PH/E for photographs of the celebration dinner

Photographs of the celebration dinner are also held by the Iconographic Department