Dec. t, 1886.] 



THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 



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These terms being, of course, more favourable for 

 the vendor, were duly accepted, and a few days later 

 the agreement, of which the full text is quoted here- 

 after was also acceded 10 : — 



DltAl'T OF AGREKMENT BETWEEN CKESSWELL HEWETT 

 AND WIIjLIAM BfUTON AND OTHERS. 



40, Chancery Lane, "W.C, 13th Sept., 18Ht). 



KahI'-ord anu Franklin. 



Tennn of proiiosed Agreement hetween Cresivell and 

 Heicett and Doctor 11 lUiani Burton. 



Dr. Burton to deposit i;21,00U with a banker to be 

 approved by C. Hewett. 



C. Hewett to manufacture within a week, in the pre- 

 sence of Dr. Burton and two persons to be named by 

 him, a sufficient qunitity of quinme, by a synthetical, or 

 artificial process, at a cost of not more tlian 4d per 

 ounce. The quinine so to be manufactured to be 

 equal in quality to the ordinary quinine, and identical 

 in its medical properties. 



On the manufacture being completed to the satis- 

 faction of Dr. lUirton, C. Hewett shall be entitled 

 to the said sum of £21,000, and also to shares in a 

 company (with the capital of £250,000) intended to 

 be formed, to the amount of £29,000, as the con- 

 sideration for the disclosure to the said Dr. Burton 

 of the secret process of so manufacturing quinine. 

 Such £29,000 shares not to pay dividends until the 

 ordinary share of the company sluill pay dividends at 

 the rate of 10 per cent per annum. 



C. Hewett to commumcate all information necess- 

 ary to the manufacture of quinine by the process 

 aforesaid, and to assist Dr. liurtou ni protectuig the 

 said invention by letters patent in the United King- 

 dom and all other countries. Such letters patent to 

 be taken out in the names of the said Dr. Burton, 

 or the said intended company, or other, the nominees 

 of the said Dr. Burton. 



VISIT TO THE FACrOUY AT WANDSWORTH. 



On the 4th ult. Dr. Burton, Messrs. Blaud, Cress- 

 well Hewett. J. F. Bunting, and S. M. Burroughs 

 (Burroughs, Wellcome & Co.), visited the chemical 

 works of the last-named him at Bell Lane, Wands- 

 worth, where Mr. Cresswell Hewett selected a room 

 and certain machinery and appliances, to be supple- 

 mented by other apparatus of his own, and made 

 various general agreements for the proposed demon- 

 stration of the actual process of quinine manufacture. 

 Such process is stated to involve the admixture or 

 manipulation of three ingredients only and the time 

 occupied by the treatment of such ingredients, from 

 the first handling of the raw material to the com- 

 pletion of the finished products, docs not exceed 24 

 hours. Besides the "quinine," it is alleged that a 

 " bye-product " is also formed. 



After the incidents just mentioned. Dr. Burton in- 

 formed our representative nothing particular occurred 

 except that Mr. C. Hewett appeared to hang back a 

 little, and could not b; induced to fulfil or go on 

 with his part of the compact, and neither Dr. Burton 

 nor Messrs. Burroughs and Wellcome seem to liave 

 known much more about him except that he left 

 England, presumably for the purpose of forwarding 

 the business in view. It is thought by some that 

 he has gone to Liege ; another report has it that 

 he is not a great way off Darmstadt at the pre- 

 sent moment. 



•'burton and OTIIEUS V. CRESSWELL HEWETT AND CO." 



The announcement made in these columns on 

 Saturday last, therefore, seems to have been the 

 first intimation received of the existence of " The 

 Atlas Quinine Company," and accordingly it fell 

 with all the force of a wet blanket upon Messrs. 

 Burton, Bland, Burroughs and Wellcome, &c. 

 These gentlemen have nothing to do with, and have 

 no cognizance of, "The Atlas Quinine Company," 

 and tbey not unnaturally contend tliat its very ex- 

 istence is m direct contravention of their previous 

 arrangements with Mr. Cresswell Hewett. It has, 

 therefore, Dr. Burton informs us been determined, 

 in the absenc of any explanation from Mr. Hewett, 

 to apply for an injunction restraining the "Atlas" 

 Company and "CresswelJ Hewett <i' Co." from sell- 



ing, dealing in, or manufacturing the said artificial 

 quinine, and should this come off shortly the whole 

 matter will probably be well ventilated. " Having 

 gone so far," paid Dr. Burton to our representative, 

 " we cannot stop where we are. Whatever it may 

 cost now, I must sift this matter to the very bottom." 

 Small samples of the "artificial quinine" and tlie 

 "bye-product" are in Burton's possession ; the former 

 he retains for the present unopened, the last we are 

 informed has been examined by Mr. Clayton, f.c.s., 

 of Holborn Viaduct, \\ho reports that he can make 

 nothing of it. 



It may be remembered that a sample of the 

 "quinine," A'c, was entrusted to us by Mr. Hewett. 

 We have analytically examined this sample, and also 

 the " bye-product, ' and we shall have some observ- 

 ations to make respecting them in our next issue. — 

 BritUh and Colonud JJruc/i/ifit. 



Average dividend 9 per cent. 

 -name and Colo-ud Mud, October, 1886. 



Fibre Co.— In the case of Mr. C. E. CoHyer, 

 described as of Fenchurch-street, hemp, fibre, and 

 China produce broker, trading under the firm of 

 CoUyer and Co., who filed his petition in August 

 last," Mr. S, Woolf applied in the Bankruptcy Court 

 for the approval of an arrangement come to by the 

 creditors, whereby it was agreed that Llie property 

 should vest in, and be administered by a trustee 

 for the benefit of creditors in like manner as if the 

 debtor had been adjudged bankrupt. The official 

 receiver, for whom Mr. Aldridge appeared, reported 

 that the debtor had traded after knowing liiinself 

 to be insolvent, but the Court did not think that 

 anything had been shown to disentitle tlie debtor to 

 his discharge, except perhips with a nominal sus- 

 pension, and therefore woulil not withhold approval 

 of the scheme. The application was accordingly 

 granted.—/., di G. Express. 



» Working part of year. 



