Botany of the new United States Pharmacopoeia

The Botany of the new U[nited] S[tates] P[harmacopoeia]. London Holograph draft (on rectos only), wanting f. 10 and c. 4 leaves at the end. The paper, adding a detailed list of examples, regards the botanical nomenclature of the U.S. Phamacopoeia (presumably 9 ed., 1916) as unnecessarily confusing, pedantic, and on occasion inaccurate.

19. ff. 18.5x12.5 cm. Unbound.

Presented 1935 by Mrs. Holmes to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Accession Number 89200.

Published with little alteration under the above title in Pharmaceutical Journal, 1916, 4 ser., 43, 484-485.

Catalogue entry prepared by Access to Archives mark-up staff from published finding aids (with additional information provided by Christopher Hilton) and edited for inclusion in Wellcome Library database by Christopher Hilton.

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).