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sam of Tolu (Toluifera* indica), with a Tea tree (Alstonia 
theeformis Mut.), with Ipecacuanha (Psychotria emetica Mut.), 
with Wax-palms (Ceroxylon andicola Humb.), with Carannia. 
gum (Aiginetia cannifera Mut.), with Winter’s bark ( Wintera 
granadensis), with Quassia RSOtenRS and with we valuable 
_ dyeing woods. — 
In the history of sciences, it often happens that the person 
who knows how to diffuse, with a certain degree of boldness, 
the discovery of another, passes for the discoverer himself, in- — 
stead of him who made that discovery. M. Mutis, a man of a li- 
, enlig itened mind, asked no reward from the Go- 
verninent. He occupied himself without ostentation in botani- 
cal examinations of the kinds of Cinchona which he discovered, . 
and in the application of their barks through an extensive me- 
dical practice. In the year 1783 only, he obtained a royal sa- 
lary, when the botanical expedition. of Santa Fe was eke ae 
by M- Gongora, who was both. archbishop and viceroy. 
In the year 1776, four years after M: Mutis’s Sepa Tx | 
Sebastian Jose Lopez Ruiz, a cunning and petulant physician 
“Santa Fe;.a native of Ganama, found means to persuade 
the Spanish Government _that he had first discovered Cinchona 
trees in New Granada. He ‘sent samples of the new Cinchona 
to Madrid, spoke a great deal of the importance of this new — 
article of commerce, and obtained a yearly pension of 2000 pias- 
tres for his reward. From records which M. Lopez remitted to. 
me in the year 1802, by his brother, a canon im Quito, in order 
to prove to me the priority pf his discovery, I have found that 
he knew the Cinchona about Honda only in the year 1774, and 
that he made the first medicinal experiment with it in the year 
1775. M. Lopez did not long enjoy his full salary. The vice- 
roy Gongora, who besides. esteemed M. Mutis greatly, and. his 
first secretary Don Zenon de Alonzo, who was a meaiGus” pro- 
* Myrospermum balsamiferum, 
