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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 2
Title:: Cinchona: patent for mossing
Scope & Content:: Proposal by Government of Madras to withdraw the patent already granted to William McIvor, Superintendent of Cinchona plantations, for mossing the cinchona tree, because grant will prevent the State from cultivating cinchona for the general benefit and will keep the price of quinine artificially ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1866
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 3
Title:: Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in Nilgiri Hills
Scope & Content:: Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in Nilgiri Hills for April, May, June, July, August and September. Include lists of people and locations where plants distributed; memo by William McIvor dated 22 June 1866, 'Observations on the germination and growth of seeds of the medicinal chinchona...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1866
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 12
Title:: Salary claim by J Broughton, Chemist to the Government Cinchona plantations
Scope & Content:: J Broughton submits a claim for arrears of pay, on the grounds that he was delayed in taking up his duties as Chemist because he contracted smallpox and was in quarantine. Authorised.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1866-1867
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 15
Title:: Cinchona: observations by Clements Markham
Scope & Content:: Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in the Nilgiri Hills for October, November and December 1866. Reports include lists of those to whom chinchona plants distributed. File also includes letter from Clements Markham, dated 16 Jan 1866, to Revenue Department, Government of Madras, giving re...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1866
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 20
Title:: William McIvor, Superintendent, Government Chinchona Plantations
Scope & Content:: William McIvor, Superintendent,Government Chincona Plantations, complains to the Government of Madras that he has not been given sufficient authority over his subordinates to run the plantations effectively. The accounts of Lt Nichol, in charge of Neddiwattam plantation, are audited and found to...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1866-67
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 22
Title:: Chinchona: patent for mossing
Scope & Content:: William McIvor, Superintendent, Government Chinchona Plantations, protests to Government of Madras at the withdrawal of his patent for mossing (i.e. covering the growing bark of the chinchona tree with moss, to maintain alkaloid content of bark). Government of Madras forwards McIvor’s correspond...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1867
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 23
Title:: Therapeutic effects of chinchona
Scope & Content:: Preliminary report of the Madras Chinchona Commission, reporting the treatment of 1145 cases of 'paroxysmal fever'. Includes tables of submissions from medical officers. Individual reports submitted by Dr J Keess at Goodaloor and by Dr W N Chipperfield at Madras. Correspondence between J Brought...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1867
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 32
Title:: Chinchona: analyses of samples
Scope & Content:: Preliminary report by J Broughton, Government Quinologist, on his examination of the various products of the Government Chinchona Plantation. Supports the value of the mossing process introduced by William McIvor. 12 Apr 1867. Report by J E Howard, FLS, to Secretary of State for India, on the ch...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1867
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 42
Title:: Report on Chinchona Plantations
Scope & Content:: (1) Report by William McIvor on chinchona plantations and botanical gardens, Ootacamund, in the Nilgiris for the year 1866-67. Discusses condition of plants, formation of alkaloids (quoting analysis by J E Howard), convict labour, botanical garden, and tea plantation. Includes sketch of trees at ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1867
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PJ/3/1357 No.28
Title:: 2797: Cinchona on the Nilgiri Hills
Scope & Content:: Cover page for Collection No.14, Fort St George, Revenue Department, Miscellaneous, and Table of Contents. Report by J Broughton, Quinologist to Government, on the utilisation of the cinchona barks of the Government plantations on the Nilgiri Hills, dated 27th November 1867, with related corre...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Nov 1867-May 1868
Extent:: 1 file

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