A description of the genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other barks of a similar quality are taken. Illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered. To which is prefixed Professor Vahl's dissertation on this genus, read before the Society of natural history at Copenhagen. Also a description, accompanied by figures, of a new genus named Hyænanche: or hyæna poison.

  • Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A description of the genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other barks of a similar quality are taken. Illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered. To which is prefixed Professor Vahl's dissertation on this genus, read before the Society of natural history at Copenhagen. Also a description, accompanied by figures, of a new genus named Hyænanche: or hyæna poison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    \ C 3° ] Mr. BROWN’S LETTER. SIR, HAVING been informed of your intention of publifh- ing an account of the different fpecies of the genus Cin- chona, permit me to prefent you with a fpecies of Peru- vian Bark new at leaft to me, and which I believe is very little known in this country *. In the year 1793 I was engaged to go Surgeon of the Speedy Tranfport, Captain Thomas Melvill, belonging to Mr. Enderby and Sons, Paul’s-Wharf, London. We were firft bound to New South Wales with provifions, and afterwards on the Sperm whale fifhery along the coafts of Chili and Peru. While fifhing near the Gallapagoe iflands, our crew unfortunately being feized with the fea fcurvy, it was found abfolutely neceffary to make the main in or- der to refrefh them. The Captain intended Manta for this purpofe, a fmall Indian village lying to the fouth- ward of the Equator; but the wind and current baulking us, we were obliged to bear away and run for Tecamez, another Indian village, fituated in 46 miles north latitude, and probably near 80 degrees weft longitude. Here * This appears certain from a collation of the leaves with all the fpecies, pre- ferved in Sir Jofeph Banks’s Herbarium, with none of which they agree. A molt faithful reprefentation of thefe l$ave6 is given at plate 11. we