IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0809 CI
Held at: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Title: Cinchona-Institute, Amsterdam
Date(s): 1896-1957
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s): Cinchona-Institute, Amsterdam x Cinchona-Instituut, Amsterdam
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Cinchona-Institute was a non-profit research institute connected to the quinine industry of Holland.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Cinchona-Institute, 1896-1957, comprise publications and reprinted extracts largely from medical journals concerning quinine and the treatment of various diseases including malaria. Publications, 1896-1952, largely concern quinine and its medical uses and notably include Influenza Prophylaxis Chininum (Bureau tot bevordering van het kininegebruik, Amsterdam, 1933-1934) and The Therapeutics of Malaria (Bureau for increasing the use of quinine, Amsterdam, 1933). Extracts collected from various sources, 1948-1957, notably include 'Malaria in Nigeria' by Leonard J Bruce-Chwatt of Medical Service, Medical Department, Lagos-Yaba, Nigeria, 1951; 'Malaria and its control for planters and miners' by G Macdonald, The Ross Institute Industrial Advisory Committee, Bulletin No. 7 November 1952 (revised March 1953) and also include extracts from Indian Journal of Malariology, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and British Medical Journal.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, Dutch, French and German.
System of arrangement:
Arranged in original order.
Conditions governing access:
This collection is open for consultation. Please contact the Archivist to arrange an appointment. All researchers must complete and sign a user registration form which signifies their agreement to abide by the archive rules. All researchers are required to provide proof of identity bearing your signature (for example, a passport or debit card) when registering. Please see website for further information at www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids exist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden contains the personal papers of Norman Taylor (1900-1967) which make reference to files on medicinal plants which were being considered for cultivation and promotion by the Cinchona-Instituut in Amsterdam.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Archives and manuscripts website at The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garden.
Compiled by Samantha Velumyl, AIM25 cataloguer.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008