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Cinchona

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  • Peruvian bark : a popular account of the introduction of chinchona cultivation into British India, 1860-1880 / by Clements R. Markham.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona caribbaea): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Travels in Peru and India : while superintending the collection of chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India / by Clements R. Markham.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • A handbook of cinchona culture / by Karel Wessel van Gorkom ; translated by Benjamin Daydon Jackson.
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    Quinografia portugueza ou collecção de varias memorias sobre vinte e duas especies de quinas, tendentes ao seu descobrimento nos vastos dominios do Brasil, copiada de varios authores modernos : enriquecida com cinco estampas de quinas verdadeiras, quatro de falsas, e cinco de balsameiras ... e colligida de ordem de sua alteza real o Principe do Brasil / Por Fr. José Mariano Velloso.

    Velloso, José Mariano da Conceição, 1742-1811. | Date: 1799
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    M0001408: Reproduction of page 2 of a handwritten description of Cinchona

    | Date: 20 November 1930 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/13/10
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    M0001429: Reproduction of the first page of a handwritten manuscript of "Razon de las siete especies de Quina" by Hipólito Ruiz López

    | Date: 21 November 1930 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/13/31
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0001740: Reproduction of the title page from Corticis china chinae, ejusque virtutum & virium descriptio, 1681

    | Date: 24 March 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/16/34
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0002252: Page 11 of 24 of India Office report no. 422 from Colonel Richard Henry Beddome (1830-1911), dated 10 August 1881

    | Date: 01 September 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/19/40
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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