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...
E&O 9081/31 - Quinine: retrenchment, the future of the Cinchona plantation in Burma and the policy of the Government of India
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File icludes: Legislative Assembly and Council of State questions and answers and a (Legislative Assembly Debates) Official Report, Vol. 1 No.5, dated 7th February, 1936 (Government of India Press, 1936) NLA-D36/1/5. Newspaper extracts Central Advisory Board of Health (14 page) publication rega...
E&O 3419/37 - Quinine Policy of the Empire; enquiry by the Economic Advisory Council on the problem of production and distribution
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File includes: Imperial Council of Agricultural Research Report [Miscellaneous Bulletin No.29] on the “Prospects of Cinchona Cultivation in India” (Government of India Press, New Delhi, 1939)Summary Report of the Inaugural Meeting of the General Advisory Board of Health, held in Simla on 22nd an...
Revenue, Judicial and Legislative Committee Papers
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Papers re introduction of quinine-yielding cinchona into India, 1836-1859; bound with papers re Madras Observatory, 1855 and Madras School of Art, 1854
399: Collection to Public Despatch, No.58 of 1860, dated 14 April 1861
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The collection contains the following papers: Correspondence regarding the circumstances under which the water marked paper referred to in Despatch No.22, dated 22nd October 1858, imported from Boulogne for transmission to Messrs. Graff and Branziger at Calcutta, was sent out under contract by ...