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Cinchona. — Although small supplies were catalogued 
qi} Tuesday, only a languid interest was show n in 
to the heavy auctions at Amsterdam next week, 
however, were anxious to meet the market, and 
for auction 
them, owing 
Importers, 
the average 
last London 
auctions. 
The following table shows 
the quantity of bark 
offered and 
sold 
Packages offered. 
Packages sold. 
South American Cinchona 
- 940 
9IO 
East Indian Cinchona 
- 33 b 
288 
Java Cinchona 
" 236 
44 
Ceylon Cinchona 
- 228 
155 
1,740 
1 >397 
The following were the approximate quantities of bark purchased 
the principal buyers : — 
Agents for the American factories 
Agents for the Brunswick factory 
Messrs. Howards & Sons 
Agents for the Imperial factory - 
Agents for the Mannheim and Amsterdam 
factories - 
Agents for the Paris factory 
Agents for the Frankfort and Stuttgart factories 8,660 
Druggists, &c. ----- 29,603 
- 59.332 lbs. 
- 28,933 » 
- 26,770 „ 
- 26,179 „ 
9,27 > „ 
9,046 „ 
Total quantity sold - 1 97. 793 
Bought in or withdrawn - 74,584 
Total quantity offered - 27.3,3 77 
The prices paid were as follows : — 
South American. — About 900 bales Bolivian cultivated Calisaya 
quill offered and sold at from 6 \d. to and broken quill 
at from 7 %d. to 8^., 7 bales of flat cultivated Calisaya sold at 
is. 3W. for sound. 
Java. — Ledgeriana chips, 6 d. per lb. 
Ceylon. — Ledgeriana original stem-chips, 3^/., branch hybrid 
original stem chips and shavings, 3^/. to 4 id., red original 
stem, 3 %d, per lb. 
East Indian. — Ledgeriana stem chips, 2d. to 5 \d., branch 4 '\d. and 
root 3*/. to id. Succirubra, original stem, I \d. to 3$d., branch, 
2d. and root, 2 \d . to $^d. Officinalis, stem chips and shav- 
ings, 2 \d. to 5 id., branch, 3^/. to 5^/., renewed chips, 3}*/. to 
g\d. and root, 8 \d. per lb. 
To the Amsterdam auctions to be held on August 29, 1,629 bales 
and 46 cases Java bark, totalling 139,864 kilos, have been 
added, so that the total amount to be offered is now 7,740 
