484 CULTIVATION OF CHINCHONA Chap. XXVIII. 



a thorough acquaintance with the climates, soils, and flora of 

 the hills. He has long taken a deep interest in the Cjuestion 

 of the introduction of chinchona-plants into India, and he 

 brought the subject to the notice of Lord Harris, then 

 Governor of Madi-as, as long ago as 1855. Since that time 

 he has made himself master of the subject by a study of 

 every work of any importance which tas appeared in Europe 

 within the last thirty years ;* while the practical knowledge 

 which he has acquired of the requirements of chinchona-plants 

 during the fifteen months that he has now superintended 

 their cultivation, in addition to his previous qualifications, 

 makes him fitter than any other jjerson that could be foimd 

 for the direction of this most important experiment. 



In July 1861 Mr. Mclvor was appointed Superintendent of 

 chinchona cultivation by the Madras Government, with full 

 and entire control over the operations, in direct communica- 

 tion with the Government, and subject to no interference 

 from any intermediate authority.^ Orders to the same effect 

 were sent out to Madras by the Secretary of State for India 

 in Council on July 2nd, 18G1, and the same orders were re- 

 peated both to the Governor-General and to the Governor of 

 3Iadras, in despatches dated February 1862. It was above aU 

 things important that Mr. Mclvor's position, in connexion 

 with the chinchona experiment, should be authoritatively 

 defined, ia order to protect him from attempts at inter- 

 ference, which have been as vexatious as they have been 



•* I have supplied Mr. Mc Ivor with. , 6. Spruce's Expedition to procure 

 the following works on the chinchona- ; (Seeds and Plants of C. succiruhra. 

 plants :— i 7. Pritchett's Beport mi the Chin- 



1 Weddell's Histoire NatureUe des : chona Plants of Huanuco. 

 Quinquinas. I 8. Cross's Report on the C. Conda- 



2. Howard's Nueva Quinologia de minea. 



Pa von. 



3. Poeppig's Notes on the Chinchona 

 Trees and Barks of Huanuco. 



4. Karstens Medicinal Chinchona 

 BarJis of Xeic Granada. 



5. Markham's Beport of a Visit to 

 the Chinchona Forests of Caravaya. 



9. Junghuhn's Cultivation of tJie 

 Quina-tree in Java, 1859. 



10. Botanicid Descriptions of Species 

 of Clmichonae now growing in India. 



* Order of the Madras Government, 

 July 3rd, 1861, No. 1328. 



