M0001706: Photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana from a plantation in Lembang, Java

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Cinchona Ledgeriana. Plantation of Lembang, Java.

Black and white photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana from a plantation in Lembang, Java, 1300 metres above sea-level. The original specimen was possibly a Flückiger herbarium sheet lent by the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berne 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 possibly listed on page 29 in the souvenir catalogue.

24 March 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item may have been 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.