Mexico: botanical survey of Sonora province

The items in this collection comprise returns from local Thenientes to a survey launched by the Justicia mayor of Sonora province, Patricio Antonio G?mez de Cossio. The subject of the survey was the fruits, trees (economic and medicinal) and medicinal herbs of the province.

Sonora was one of the Mexican provinces of the empire of New Spain. The governor of the province was the Justicia mayor , whose local deputies were known as Thenientes .

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1962.

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). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/.

manuscript, each item bound.

description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.

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The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.