Letter from J Broughton, Government Quinologist, to Revenue Department, Government of Madras, 31 July 1871, analysing cinchona barks from different plantations in India. Letter from John Eliot Howard at Tottenham to Under Secretary of State for India, 16 January 1872, responding to Broughton’s r...
An administrative history of the recent cultivation and export of cinchona, compiled from the records by F C Danvers, India Office, 30 June 1883. Discusses the Madras plantations, the commercial value of different kinds of bark, and the future of the market. Includes tabular statement of the quan...
Letter from W T Thiselton Dyer, Assistant Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to Secretary of State for India, 9 August 1882, on behalf of Sir Joseph Hooker, Director, disputing the supposed toxicity of cinchona febrifuge manufactured in Sikkim, and proposing steps to improve the manufacture of...