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Review of a Memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio, Countess of 

 Chinchon and Vice-Queen of Peru (A.D. 1629-39), with a Plea 

 for the Coined Spelling of the Chinchona Genus. By Clements 

 R Markham, C.B. F.K.S., 



THE introduction into India, and the successful cultivation upon 1875. 

 a large scale in that country, of the most valuable medicinal "~rke 

 tree produced on the Continent of South America, is one of -Academy," 

 those triumphs of enterprise of which the second half of the 

 present century may well feel proud. To place within reach of 

 millions of the inhabitants of that vast country a remedy of 

 unfailing value, and thus to sow broadcast the seeds of life over 

 districts invaded by fever, is a project the realisation of which 

 will form one of the pleasantest episodes in the history of 

 British rule in India. Considerations such as these confer on 

 the tree whose bark is the raw material of quinine an interest 

 of far deeper significance than attaches to any other medicinal 

 plant ; and contributions to its history, whether from a literary 

 or scientific point of view, must be cordially welcome. 



Of all those entitled to write on such a subject, no one has 

 a better claim to attention than Mr. Clements E. Markham, for 

 it is to his sound judgment and untiring energy for fifteen 

 years that the widespread and prosperous culture of the tree in 

 India is mainly due. 



The personage on whose behalf Mr. Markham now takes the Dona Ana, 

 pen is a lady of the seventeenth century, Dona Ana, Countess 

 of Chinchon, a member of a noble Spanish family, tracing back 

 a princely lineage of well nigh a thousand years. Dona Ana 

 was the younger daughter of Pedro Alvarez Osorio, eighth 

 Marquis of Astorga, and was born at Astorga in 1599. In 

 1615 she became the wife of Don Luis de Velasco, Marquis of 

 Salinas, and went to reside at Seville. But the happiness of 

 her marriage was of short duration, for her husband died in 

 the prime of life in 1619. The young widow, who is said to 

 have been remarkably beautiful, removed to Madrid, where she 

 resided until 1621, in which year she bestowed her hand on 

 Don Luis Geronimo Fernandez de Cabrera y Bobadilla, fourth 



