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"rong (hear, hear), and that vast trade which has been so created has 
xertions of men of science, and of those who have gone 
poe frin Kew for the purpose of developing and encouraging that 
cultivation. Take, again, the case of cinchona. My friend Sir Hagh Low 
and those who have been in those hot climates know there is nothing l 
which preserves the d under trying circumstances more than that. 
most agen d ne. The development of the cinchona plant 
has b e ye 
all events, while it might be within the reach of the richer European 
there, it was altogether out of the reach of the native population. Now 
I understand that in Bengal, since I left India, you can get at any post- 
office five grains of quinine for less than a farthing. (Applause). I know 
my taste for quinine developed so much in those OD that I bave not. 
quite given it up since, and by its means I have kept the influenza at 
bay in these bad times. I feel, ite m very RW to these who have 
developed its cultivation. 
“Thad a curious proof the other day of the way in which planis of 
great value may be but little known to those who do not cultivate 
science, or are not engaged in those industries in which these plants 
are e mplo yed. I rece eived a deputation from Leeds. Though most of 
you probably think only of Leeds i an important place for the produc- 
tion of cloth, yet there is a great leather trade in Leeds besides, an 
to increase the production of Gambier. They told me that they could 
not get on without it, that it was absolutely essential to their industry, 
and that it came shipped to them from Singapore. I believe the 
re bu 
had never heard of Gambier. I knew nothing about it. I had placed 
in my hands some most interesting reports of Mr. Ridley (whose name 
you have mentioned) about it, and I have written to the Governor of 
the place to see what can be "done to increase the production and to 
improve the packing of the eene in that country, and the tra nsmis- 
sion o ol it to pns gone The a proof, gentlemen, of the man 
various ways, o wiih a are oet little known indeed to this 
country, in wiih: Hesiod science especially may. be of value to the 
populations of our various 
“ I suppose, in epe of the Colonial development of other European 
countries which is going on so rapidly at the present time, that the 
British Empire will show a larger amount 4 various climates, of greater 
variety of flora and fauna, perhaps, than any other country in the world, 
and to say that is only to show how valuable a society of this kind 
must be, and how very unwise it would be for any man who has charge 
to the utmost of his RON (hee hear at I can assure 
is my inclination. But ust remember that when the rupee will 
rod, and ought to be taken away er that sent it, rather than 
by taking scientific means of getting dà w it, difficuti e 
insurmountable 2 Colonial Secreta here were days when 
Colonial Secretaries were very werful end despotic. I am bound 
to say théy tanii} got the Colonies into hot water, and kept them 
there during their term of office, and when one man went out another = 
