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...
Report on the method of extracting quinine from cinchona bark as practised in the factory at Mungpoo
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Letters enclosing report by Dr George King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, on the method of extracting quinine from cinchona bark, as practised in the factory at Mongpoo by Mr Gammie. King also requests that samples of the following cinchona products be supplied to him: C...
pp 317-19. Communication from the Government of Bengal, enquiring if any estimate can be given of the amount of cinchona bark which would be available from Madras. Answered with tabulated statement showing the estimated quantity of crop expected to be harvested from the Government cinchona planta...
pp 43-44. Letter from Messrs Thomas Christy and Company to the Secretary of the Government of India enclosing a sample of cinchona seed received from Bolivia, including a translated letter received from Bolivia regarding the cinchona grown there; forwarded to the Government of Bengal. Dr King's ...
Reports on the Cinchona Plantations in the Nilgiri Hills, and American India-rubber plants at Nilambur
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pp 119-36. Despatch from the Government of Madras, enclosing proceedings regarding the work of Robert Cross. Includes: Report by Robert Cross on the Dodabetta Plantation, and the cultivation of the Crown Condaminea or Loxa bark, and the Pitayo bark; and reports on the Naduvatam and Pykara Hook...