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Selections, 



[NO. 2, NEW SERIES 



Mr. Bayley's pattern is much to be preferred, and the 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 ISO, with the improvement 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 calisay a 

 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. 



