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proposal should be adopted, and Mr. Hooper be 
compelled to perform analyses for private persons 
without his receiving any remuneration. Indeed, I 
believe it will be found tbat such a proceeding would 
be iu direct opposition to the terms of his agreement 
with the Secretary of State, who evidently intended 
that he should be allowed to add to his official in- 
come by means of private practice, so long as this 
did not interfere with the interests of his employers. 
The total output of bark in the world per annum is 
not, I believe, accurately known ; but I suppose that 
about 30,000,000 lb. per annum will not be far from 
the mark. Of this amount, the Government estates 
will furnish this year from 90,000 to 100,000 lb., a 
proportion so small that it cannot have any per- 
ceptible bad effect upon the planting interest. The 
Government are just acquiring a disintegrator and 
other apparatus for determining if some very cheap 
method cannot be discovered of producing a large 
amount of a good febrifuge from bark grown in this 
country for the use of the poorer classes of the natives 
in this Presidency who, it is known, die annually of 
fever alone by hundreds of thousands. Another ob- 
ject of Government iu getting out this apparatus is 
to endeavour to discover some means by which the 
crude alkaloids of the hark may be extracted in this 
couutry so as to avoid the great expense which all 
planters have to incur in sending their bark iu bulk 
to the European markets, and Government may reason- 
ably hope that both of these objects will be achieved 
seeing that they possess in Mr. Hooper, one of the 
most skilled quinologists of the day. 
The Director of Cinchona Plantations was then re- 
quested to submit, for the information of Government, 
copies of the correspondence that took place between 
himself and the Wynaad Planters' Association on the 
subject of analysis of cinchona bark referred to in the 
letter from the Chairman, Chamber of Commerce, dated 
4th February 1887. 
The following are the letters referred to : — 
Prom G. llomilly, Esq., Honorary Secretary, Wynaad 
Planters' Association, to the Director of Pevenue 
Settlement and Agriculture, dated Vayitri, 9th Nov- 
ember 1835. 
Under instructions from this Association, I have the 
honour to request that we may be favoured with a copy 
of Mr. Lawson's annual report on the Government 
Cinchona Plantations. I am further instructed to 
petition Government to allow their analyst, Mr. Hooper, 
to report at cost price on samples of cinchona barks 
if such samples are forwarded by this Association, and 
recommended as likely to show by their analyses results 
of practical utility. This concession on the part of 
Government would be a great boou to the general 
community of planters, inasmuch as it would keep 
them informed of the progress that can be made in the 
matter of cultivating cinchonas and of harvesting 
their bark. 
Forwarded to M. A. Lawsou, Esq., Director of Gov- 
ernment Cinchona Plantations, &c, for disposal. 
From M. A. Liwson, Esq., Director of Government 
Oiuchona Plantations, &c, to the Honorary Secret- 
ary, Wynaa 1 Planters' Association, Vayitri, dated 
Ootacamund, 20th November 1885, No. 1882. 
Wilh reference to your letter, dated the 9th Novem- 
ber ltvSS, to the address of the Director of Revenue 
Settlement and Agriculture, Madras, transferal to me 
by him for disposal, I have the honour to inform you 
that I havo addressed Government to furnish me with 
26 spare copic s of my annual reports of which I will 
send you one, when received. Mr. Hooper, the Gov- 
ernment Quinologiat at Ootacamund, is already author- 
ized to analyse private barks. 1 enclose a table of his 
charges for such, and am sure that you cun arrange 
to have any harks you wish analysed by him by placing 
yourself iu communication with him. It will afford me 
much pleasure to give you any information which you 
may nt any time desire. 
From (J. Romilly, Esq., Honorary Secretary, S\ ynaad 
Planters' Association, to tuo Director of Government \ 
Cinchona Plantations, dated Neppadi, 28th Novem- 
ber 1885. 
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your 
letter of 20th November and its enclosure, giving the 
Government Quinologist's charges for private analyses. 
If you will refer to our letter of the 9th November, 
you will read that we petition Government to allow 
analyses to be made at cost price of samples for- 
warded and recommend by this Association as likely 
to show results of practical utility. By this we mean 
samples from trees treated experimentally iu differ- 
ent ways. In your interesting report on Govern- 
ment Cinchona Plantations you do not mention what 
manures have been tried, and in a letter communic- 
ated by you to the Collector of Malabar (of which 
I have been favoured with a copy) you say 
that manure increases the yield of bark per tree, 
but not the yield of alkaloids per lb. of bark. Per- 
haps if different manures were applied different re- 
sults might be arrived at. It is for the sake of mak- 
ing useful experiments of this sort that we have 
requested the assistance of Government in letting us 
have analyses from their qninologist at cheaper rates. 
You are good enough to offer to give us any inform- 
ation we may at any time desire, and I hope after 
our next meeting to send you a few questions on 
matters connected with cinchona. 
From M. A. Lawson, Esq., Director of Government 
Cinchona Plantations, &c, Nilgiris, to the Secret- 
ary, Planters' Association, Wynaad, dated Ootaca- 
mund, 4th December, 1885, No. 955. 
I had not overlooked the remarks in your letter of 
9th November relating to analyses being made by 
the Government Qninologist at cost price, but it seems 
I did make it sufficiently clear to you that Govern- 
ment have no voice in the matter. Mr. Hooper is 
paid so much for analysing such things only as Gov- 
ernment may require for their own purposes, while 
in the matter of analysing products for private per- 
sons, he is, by his agreement with the Secretary of 
State, allowed to do this for his own profit. Any 
arrangement, therefore, which the Association may 
wish to make regarding the analysis of their barks 
or other commodities must be made direct with 
Mr. Hooper himself. With respect to the effect of 
manures on cinchona, I have as yet tried only horse 
dung, cow dung and poudrette, and from these I get 
similar results. No doubt it is very desirable to try 
other kinds as well, and this I hope to do during 
the present season. I shall be very glad to have 
any question put to me by your Association, as it 
is only by accumulation of different experience that 
accurate information can be arrived at. 
Government has passed the following Order on 
the correspondence : — " The increase in the number 
of trees in the Government Cinchona Plantations, dur- 
ing the years 1885-86, to which the Chamber of Com- 
merce takes exception, was entirely due to renewals 
and there wore no extensions, as the Chamber supposes. 
His Excellency the Governor in Council considers 
that, so long as the plantations remain the pro- 
perty of the State, they should be worked and 
cultivated according to the most approved methods. 
In G. O., No. 186, Revenue Department, dated 
15th June 1886, the Government stated the grounds 
upon which it was detetmined to retain and work 
their cinchona plantations. These grounds havo 
not ceased to exist. Since the date of the Order, 
mentioned, trials of the febrifuge, manufactured by 
Mr. Hooper, have been extended, and preparations 
for turning it out, on a large scale, are in an ad- 
vanced stage. An interesting and valuable report 
on experiments with regard to subjects of the natnro of 
those alluded to in paragraph 1 of the G. O. quoted 
above, has also been laid before tho public, and 
experiments, the results of which will bo publishod 
iu due course, are being continued. It is anticip- 
ated that on the establishment of the cheap febrifuge, 
which it is one of the chief objects of Government to 
produce, the whole of the bark realized from the Gov- 
ernment plantations will be required for its manufac- 
ture. The Chamber neod, therefore, be under no ap- 
ptohonsiou of j»n increase lu the very .-mall DWMfiV 
