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tion in India and at home. He has pss rer eset the 
landscape effects of the famous Gardens under his char He 
rebuilt the Herbarium building on lines somewhat ani lai to 
accou hé he in itiated the splendid series -of the Annals of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, which supplements ai Flora 
by fuller descriptions and life-size figures. Seven volumes have 
been issued by the Government of Bengal, whose cabins 
support Sir George King has never failed to enjoy. 
In his admininistration of the Cinchona Plantations, Sir Georg 
King has had to overcome great technical difficulties before p 
Was apts: to realize the original design of ve pnb re = 
supply the people of India, on a self-supporting basis, w 
quinine at a nominal cost. This was anally thee in 1893, iod 
a dose of five grains of quinine can now bo purchased at every 
local post office for a pice, or about a fartbing. 
The following extract from Sir George King's Annual "ido 
for 18923 describes this momentous event in his own words 
* Sale of guinen at post-offices.—The chief event of the year 
has been the organization of the system by which quinine, 
made up in doses of five grains, is offered for sale = most of the 
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the post-office officials to push the sale of these packets, a small 
commission is allowed, and considerable facility is offered for 
Je enti ar stocks by post-masters ; the parcel-rates for trans- 
n, however, bear rather heavily on the "— and I trust 
enisi tlitiià of lightening them may soon be found. When the 
scheme was suggested last year, it very soon Dui obvious that 
one of the first conditions of success would be to find some means 
of making up the packets by which paired and loss from 
pilfering aa careless ne A might be reduced to a minimum., 
It was therefore decided by Government to make this matter over 
to the Jail Department. The quinine is therefore made over fro 
the factory to that department in bulk, and by prison labour it is 
sub-divided into pice packets, 1,400 of which go to each avoirdupois 
pound. The Jail Department distributes these packets to the 
post-masters, and collects the proceeds of the sales at the various 
post-offices. A dose of pure quinine is by this means put within 
the reach of any person within the province who has a pice to 
buy it with. Thus at last, after thirty years of effort, has the end 
been attained which the Government set before itself when the 
growth of the medical cinchonas was begun in ape India. 
That end was thus expressed in an early Government resolution 
on the subject :— To put the only medicine that is of "ra use in 
the cure of the commonest and most fatal of Indian diseases within 
the reach of the poorest.’ 
