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The following extract from the Indian Forester (vol. xx., p. 81) 
gives the deii for the first year :— 
* A few months ago, we published a ae ae of the new 
Minima: by which quinine is sold at post-offices in Bengal, 
the Central Provinces and elsewhere, in d packets at 1 pice 
each. Our readers may be interested in the following figures, 
Showing the value of sales during 1893 :— 
Rs. 
January... a gs ae E ves 189 
February ... vei i de SES P 177 
March fy 3i ie " 5 iis 207 
April 330 
May ... 523 
June 872 
ul 1,305 
August JIII 
September . EI 05 
October. 3,045 
OVEMIDCE c Ges fe M s 4,262 
December ... dis pm RR e t 3,402 
Total Ré. 72 19,002 
* The number of packets actually sold was 1,446,900, which is 
not bad for the first year, and shows that the new scheme has 
* caught on’ and bids fair to be a great success." 
This result could not have been achieved without the * fusel 
oil process of manufacturing quinine," of which the history is 
given in the Kew Bulletin 2m 1890, pp. 31-34. This was devised 
by Mr. C. H ormer y Quinologist to the Government 
of Bengal, with the aid and ral ideis obtained by Sir George 
King during a visit to Holland in 1887. The processes formerly 
in p in India, now in great measure superseded, are described 
r George King's * Manual of Cinchona Cultivation in 
India” ” (1876). 
A scheme for a botanical survey of Jndia was promulgated by 
its Government, February 26, 1891, and Sir George King received 
the official title of its “ Director.” In this Eater Hie he commenced 
in 1893 the prete of “ Records of the aa 2 vey of 
India." Of this, eight numbers have at present been 
Sir George King has been n npe in his various fanitan by 
SURGEON-MAJOR D. PRAIN, M.B., F.LS., 
tinguished Indian botanist, who a some years has assisted hin " 
Curator of the Caleutta Herbari 
In 1888, Sir George King was ieee by the Government of 
the Straits Settlements, with the approval of the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, with the preparation of a “ Flora of the Recto 
Settlements and Malay Peninsula.” He has published from tim 
to time in the journal of the Asiatic Society of n: incidit 
papers, ten in all, entitled * Materials,” for this important work. 
Itisto be hoped that Sir George King's sitor leisure may 
enable him to complete it in a definitive form. 
