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Selecimis, 
[no. 2, NEW SERIES, 
Mr. Bayley's pattern is much to be preferred, and tlie suggestion 
contained in para. 10, which I owe to my Assistant Lieutenant 
O'Connell meets the solitary objection that has been, or probably 
can be, urged against the new apparatus, namely its insufficiency 
during the very heavy downpours frequent on the Western Coast, 
and of occasional occurrence throughout the whole Presidency. 
[The Government approved of the new Rain Gauges and sanctioned the manu- 
facture of 180, with the improvemeut suggested in the Chief Engineer's letter ] 
SELECTIONS. 
On the intoduction of the Cinchona or Barh-tree. 
The attention which has lately been paid to the experiment of 
introducing the Cinchona or Bark-tree into India has induced us to 
re-produce an interesting article on the successful accomplishment 
of a similar attempt in Java which we have prefaced by a general 
review of the history of this valuable drug. 
Dr. Forbes Royle, so long ago as 1840 had pointed out"^ that the 
bark yielding trees might be successfully cultivated in India and 
indicated the Neilgherry Mountains as being peculiarly suited for 
a trial. 
In 1850 Dr. Grant, Apothecary to the E. I. Company, again drew 
attention to the subject, and in 1852 the A gri Horticultural Soci- 
ety of Bengal transmitted a paper by Dr. Falconer, Superin- 
tendent of the Botanical Garden at Calcutta in which he also urged 
a trial of the experiment. The proposal was favorably received by 
the Governor General and recommended to the notice of the Court 
of Directors, by whose orders a case of plants of Cinchona calisaya 
was transmitted to Calcutta under the charge of Mr. Fortune. 
Of the six plants so despatched, five reached the Botanical 
gardens alive. They were kept for some months but did not ap- 
* Prod. Resources of India, pp. 248, 425. 
