M0001437: Cropped and enlarged section of a page 24 from Materia Medica by Carl Linneaus with Pentadria Monogynia at header

Date:: 22 November 1930

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/13/39

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        M0001437: Cropped and enlarged section of a page 24 from Materia Medica by Carl Linneaus with Pentadria Monogynia at headerWT/D/1/20/1/13/39

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M0001437: Cropped and enlarged section of a page 24 from Materia Medica by Carl Linneaus with Pentadria Monogynia at header. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Linnean Soc. Book, page 24, Pentadria Monogynia.

Description

Cropped and enlarged section of a reproduction of a facsimile of page 24 from the book Linne, Carl von: Materia Medica 1749, volume 1. The exhibition catalogue decribes the exhibit as an "Interleaved copy annotated in the author's own handwriting. Facsimile of page 24, No. 71. "Cinchona. Quinquina. Condam. Act. Paris, 1738," etc., together with the manuscript notes on the leaf facing page 14". The page was possibly reproduced as part of the facsimiles lent by The Linnean Society of London and 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. 880 in the souvenir catalogue, and is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0001434, M0001435, M0001436

Publication/Creation

22 November 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 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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