Correspondence regarding certain preparations of cinchona febrifuge other than quinine which have been tried in India
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pp 3-4. Letter to the Governor General of India from the Secretary of State forwarding a letter by C R Markham regarding the cinchona bark grown at Darjeeling, commenting on the amorphous alkaloid of the red bark of Rungbi, and requesting that a quantity of Mr Wood's cinchona febrifuge be forward...
Reports on the experiments made with the Cinchona Febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee and the Quinetum Alkaloid and Quinetum Sulphate
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pp 385-445. Correspondence regarding the work of Government Quinologist C H Wood, and the trials of his cinchona febrifuge, discussing the efficacy of the treatment when compared with other cinchona alkaloids, the economic rationale for production and distribution, production statistics, and the...
Annual report of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for the year 1879-80
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Containing: Eighteenth Annual Report and Returns of the Government Cinchona Plantations in British Sikkim by Surgeon Major George King; Report of the Quinologist for 1879-80; Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the above.
Comment on the reports of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for 1879-80
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p 443. Letter from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General regarding Dr King's recommendations following his visit to Java, the proposal to encourage private enterprise in cinchona cultivation in new localities, and his preference for Government to extend current plantations rath...
Dr George King's report on the Java Cinchona Plantation
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pp 9-16. Report of George King, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden, Calcutta, on his visit to inspect Dutch cinchona plantations in Java, and investigations into the cultivation of cinchona calisaya; letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal, regarding guidance for the I...
Correspondence regarding the report on the Government cinchona plantation at British Sikkim for 1878
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pp 143-44. Correspondence regarding the satisfactory report, enclosing a letter from J Eliot Howard regarding the supply of raw materials to manufacture sulphate of quinine and Mr Wood's mixed cinchona alkaloids.
Report on the cinchona plantation at Than-doung-gyee for the year 1879-80
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pp 195-204. Contains: Annual report by B Ribbentrop, Conservator of Forests, Pegu Circle, on the Than-doung-gyee plantation, July 1880 Memorandum by D Brandis, Inspector General of Forests, on cinchona planting on the hills east of Toungoo, 20 September 1880 Correspondence between the Government...