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1875. devoted to the family history of the Count and Countess of 

 The Chin- Chinchon, and the fifth to a description of the town of Chinchon 

 chona genus. an( j jts surroundings, the author in the concluding section sets 

 forth his " Plea for the Correct Spelling of the Chinchona Genus." 

 "It was not," writes Mr. Markham, "until the French 

 expedition of Condamine and Jussieu to America in 1735, 

 that the forests of Loxa were visited by scientific men, and 

 a few years afterwards Condamine sent specimens of the 

 quinquina plant to the great Swedish botanist Linnaeus, who 

 was the first to describe it. The name of a new and most 

 important genus was then to be given by Linnaeus, and he 

 chose for it the most appropriate that could possibly have 

 been selected, namely, that of the noble lady who had first 

 made its healing virtues known. ... But most unfortunately, 

 Linnaeus was misinformed as to the name of her whom he 

 desired to honour;" and instead of calling his new genus 

 Chinchona, he termed it Cinchona, which name has been 

 generally accepted by botanists, from whose diction it has 

 passed into the domain of medicine and chemistry. 



It is now several years since Mr. Markham lifted up his 

 voice against this corruption, or, as he terms it in the present 

 work, this " ill-omened mutilation of the Countess's name ; " 

 but hitherto, it must be confessed, with but small effect. The 

 new spelling has, indeed, been adopted in the official documents 

 of the Indian Government, but it scarcely finds acceptance in 

 a single scientific work on botany or chemistry. 



THE SPICES, GEOCEEIES, AND WAX OF A 



MEDIEVAL HOUSEHOLD, A.D. 1303-10. 

 (Posthumous Paper from the Author's Manuscript read before the 



Pharmaceutical Society, December 4th, 1875.) 



A VOLUME 1 which has just been printed for the Camden 



Society, is devoted to an Account of the Executors of Richard, 



Bishop of London, A.D. 1303, and Thomas, Bishop of Exeter, 



A.D. 1310, edited from the original MSS. in the possession of the 



1 By the late Ven. Archdeacon W. H. Hale, M.A., and the Rev. H. T. 

 Ellacombe, M.A., F.S.A. Printed for the Camden Society, 1874. 



