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Ecuador and Colombia are duly recorded in Sir Clements Markham’s 
book entitled “Peruvian Bark.” An account of his arrival at 
Ventanas in July, 1860, and of the difficulties he encountered is 
given by Spruce in the second volume of his book on the Amazon 
and Andes. 
In 1861 he went to Loxa and collected seeds of Cinchona 
condaminea on which he wrote a short report to the Secretary of 
State for India, and a much longer report on the Pitayo Cinchona 
was published giving an account of the results of his expeditions to 
obtain this plant in Colombia. Three journeys were made to 
Pitayo, and a report on the last, undertaken in 1868-69, was 
published in the correspondence relating to Cinchona cultivation in 
India laid before the House of Commons in 1876 
In 1875 Cross went out to Panama to collect plants and seeds of 
Castilloa elastica. The following year he sailed from Liverpool for 
ara and was engaged in Brazil in an investigation of the Para and 
Ceara Rubber trees and the Balsam of Copaiba, of all of which he 
collected both plants and seeds. The report which he wrote on the 
conclusion of this journey is illustrated with numerous figures and 
gives an interesting and useful account of the mode of tapping of 
the trees and of the preparation of the rubber in the Brazilian 
forests. 
After his return from the Amazon Mr. Cross settled in Edinburgh 
and a few years ago went to live at. Torrance of Campsie where he 
ied on March Ist last. He was of a retiring disposition and the 
value of his work is probably not very generally known. 
B. E. C. CuamBers.—During the last twenty years no private 
garden in the South of England has been more appreciated and 
admired by lovers of trees and shrubs than that at Grayswood Hill, 
Haslemere. We deeply regret to learn that Mr. Chambers, whose 
creation it was, died at Hyéres on March 23rd last. In his younger 
days Mr. Chambers was connected with the Yorkshire collieries, 
was a true gardener, and it was the rarest thing to see a plant in his 
grounds not in the best of health. This was mainly due to his 
personal interest in his plants and to his intimate eee Bee of their 
requirements. Mr, Chambers was gifted with a most charming 
ersonality, and remarkable as his garden was, one never saw it in 
s company without feeling that it owed half its charm to the 
courteous and distinguished man who made it. 
