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same, and that the reform should extend to the words Cinchonine 1875. 

 Ginchonidine, and Cinclionicine, as well as to any other deriva- 

 tions from the word Cinchona, in ay I be allowed a few remarks 

 on the origin of the Linnsean name, and on some of the argu- 

 ments used by Mr. Markham to support his case ? 



" It may be at once conceded that ' Chinchona ' is a word which Point 

 better commemorates the Countess of Chinchon than does admitted. 

 ' Cinchona/ 



" But let us trace the introduction of the genus Cinchona by 

 Linnaeus, and for this purpose let us have recourse to the actual 

 volumes which formed part of the library of the great botanist, 

 and which are, many of them, enriched with his MS. notes. They 

 are now in the possession of the Linnean Society of London. 



" In an interleaved copy of the Systema Naturce, published in 

 1740, there occurs in the section Pentandria Monogynia a memo- 

 randum in Linnaeus' s hand, after the genus Genipa, Quinquina 

 Cond. This is the first allusion to the tree discovered by La 

 Condamine, and on which Linnaeus founded the germs. Linnaeus. 



" In 1742 appeared the second edition (aucta et emendata) of 

 the Genera Plantarum, and on one of the two pages of Addenda 

 (p. 527) is the following sentence : ' In Pentandria monogynia 

 post Genipam, Num. 168-1021, Cinchona. Quinquina Condamin 

 Act. Gall. 1738.' In the Ordo Generum, the name is again 

 printed Cinchona, and so likewise in the index. 



" In the fourth edition of the Systema Naturce, published at 

 Paris in 1744, we read at p. 30, 'Cinchona, Quinquina, Cond. 

 Le Quinquina/ and the same spelling is adopted in the editions 

 of 1748 and 1756. Again in the fifth edition of the Genera 

 Plantarum, ' ab auctore reformata et aucta,' which appeared at 

 Stockholm in 1754, the spelling of the controverted word is 

 again (p. 79) Cinchona, and so it is in the Species Plantarum, 

 of which the first edition was printed in the previous year 

 (1753). 



"From these quotations, it may be fairly assumed that 

 Linnaeus fully meant to use the word Cinchona, and that its 

 occurrence as Cinhona, in one solitary instance in the sixth 

 edition of his Genera, 1764, was a mere typographical error, and 

 not, as Mr. Markham seems to think, a proof that he desired to 

 spell the word correctly. 



" ' It was still more unfortunate/ says Mr. Markham, that 

 Linnaeus died before the error was pointed out and corrected. 

 This was done by the Spanish botanists, Euiz and Pavon who, 

 landed in Peru in 1778, the very year of Linnseus's death. They 

 explored the forests of Huanuco and Loxa, discovered many new 



