Engraving of a Java Plant Tablet

Summary

Illustration (Fig. 87) in "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington" of a java plant showing its leaves, flowers and fruit of the tree framed in wood sawn from the outer portion of the tree. This exhibit was on display in the Division of Materia Medica , United States National Museum, now the Arts & Industries Building (A&I).

Subject

• United States National Museum
• Arts and Industries Building
• United States National Museum Division of Materia Medica

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

From "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington." New York: Brentano Brothers, 1886. Page 64

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Information File Box 13 Folder Smithsonian Guide Books, 1886 (Brentano Bros.)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1886

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Medicine
• Botany
• Exhibitions
• Java Plant
• Visitor's Guide
• Plants
• Comparative Technology Section (USNM)
• Medical sciences

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Scientific illustration

ID Number

95-20327

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Scientific Illustration; Medium: Photographic print

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