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buildings at Cinchona were leased from the Jamaican govern- 

 ment by the New York Botanical Garden for the period of ten 

 years from August, 1903, and thus an outfit practically ready 

 for occupancy was secured where American botanists could take 

 advantage of all needed facilities for tropical work under the most 

 favorable circumstances. 



Cinchona takes its name from the extensive plantations of that 

 tree which were installed by the Jamaican government over forty 

 years ago with the intention of producing its drug on a com- 

 mercial scale. So far as leased by the Garden, Cinchona consists 

 of a six-room house with accessory kitchen, store-room, and 

 stable, three office buildings suitable for dormitories and capable 

 of housing eight or ten people in addition to the house proper 

 with its four large sleeping apartments, two low green-houses 

 sufficient for cultivation under glass of such plants as require 

 more moisture than that afforded by the outside atmosphere, 

 and two laboratories large enough to accommodate nearly a 

 dozen workers. These buildings form the greater part of the 



Sir Daniel Morris (1879-1886) and later (1 886-1 897) under the 

 Hon. William Fawcett was the residence of the government 

 botanist and the center of botanical work in the island. The 

 physical, climatic, and floral conditions at Cinchona, as well as 

 the sanitary conditions of the location, demand attention as form- 

 ing the real basis for recommendation as a tropical laboratory 

 where students accustomed to a more temperate climate may 

 desire to study for a longer or shorter period. These may be 



1. Location. — Cinchona is located on a spur of the Blue 

 Mountain range on the southern (xerophytic) exposure at an 

 elevation of 4,950 feet above the sea. It is most easily reached 

 from Kingston via Gordontown which is connected with Kingston 

 by one of Jamaica's splendid carriage roads, and from which two 

 good bridle paths lead to Cinchona either over Content Gap or 

 past Guava Ridge. A driving road from Buff Bay on the north 

 coast reaches Silver Hill Gap seven miles from Cinchona and is 



