Album of medicinal plants from Macedonia

Album of pressed flowers from Macedonia containing various examples used for medicinal purposes collected by Cyril Douglas Day in 1918 using Royal Army Medical Corps blank paperwork as mounting paper, accompanied by a handwritten list of its contents and a letter from Cyril Douglas Day dated 17/8/1918

During his time in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Macedonia during the First World War, Cyril Charles Day (1885-1968) collected flowers and examples of medicinal plants from where he was stationed in Macedonia. Labelled with dates and their Latin and their common names and botanical families, this notebook provides examples of the plants local to Salonika, now Thessalonikia.

Each are mounted on the reverse of a blank army medical death form. An accompanying letter apologies for the "rough book they are mounted in" explaining that the paper was procured from an army quartermaster as the paper was better for the plants. It is unknown who Day was sending the samples to.

This item was once part of Anne Hull Grundy's (1926-1984) collection. She was a prolific collector of a wide variety of items including jewellery, European and Japanese decorative arts and medals. Along with her husband Professor John Hull Grundy (1907-1984), they donated items to over 70 museums including the British Museum and the Fitwilliam Museum.