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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 38.] FEBRUARY. [1890. 
CXXVIII.—MANUFACTURE OF QUININE IN INDIA. 
In - Bulletin for June 1888 the papers were reproduced in which 
tel 
the process was described by which either quinine separa 
kae alkaloids were extracted from cinchona bark at the Sikkim 
plantatio 
The AE of Bengal has recently communicated to 
this establishment a copy of the * Annual report on the Government 
“ Cinchona Plantation iet Factory in Bengal for the year 1888-89." 
. The following important information is apane am it, for the 
reach. It is obvious that if cinchona alkaloids ean be cheaply an 
e hg extracted from the bark at the place where it is grown, there 
a great economy in the expense of transmitting the bark to 
drepi 
* The new oil process for manufacturing quinine.-—This process 
has been in use for the manufaeture of sulphate of quinine during the 
year, and no less than 2,191 pounds of that drug have been prepared by 
it. Arrangements have also been made for its application during the 
eurrent year to the manufaeture of cinehona febrifuge. Up to the 
year under review the new process can scarcely be said to have been 
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