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300 
Cinchona succirubra. Stock plants, for taking cuttings from . 1000 
Do. Plants of good size, ready for distribution. 5208 
Do. Plants of small size. 73G2 
Cinchona officinalis, planted out in the forest.. 100 
Do. Stock plants, for propagation from by cuttings . 1000 
Do. Plants ready for distribution . 3250 
Do. Small plants. 3188 
Cinchona crispa (variety of the one preceding) stock plants for 
propagating from . 141 
Cinchona Calisaya , stock plants for propagating from .. 
Cinchona micrantha , seeds received' 
under different names, but plants planted out in the forest 
not distinguishable specifically.) J 
Do. Stock plants for propagating from.. 100 
Cinchona Pahudiana Ditto. 4 
In addition to the plants enumerated above, there are numerous cuttings in progress 
of striking ; and this mode of propagation will now go on very rapidly from the number 
of healthy stock plants kept for the purpose. 
A few healthy plants of Cinchona succirubra are still on sale at Peradenia. 
In June last a very interesting Report was sent to the Under Secretary of State for 
India, by J. E. Howard, Esq., on the subject of an analysis he had made of bark, of the 
second year’s growth, of Cinchona succirubra cultivated on the Neilgherries, the result 
of which analysis Mr. Howard considered extremely favourable, a very fair percentage 
of valuable alkaloids having been obtained. From a supply of dried leaves of Cinchona 
succirubra , sent to him by Mr. M‘Ivor, Mr. Howard succeeded in obtaining quinine, but 
in such small quantity that he thought they would hardly supply a material for the 
profitable extraction of the alkaloid.* Dr. T. Anderson, Superintendent of the Calcutta 
Botanic Gardens, in a Report sent by him to the Under Secretary to the Government 
of Bengal, states that Dr. Collins, Civil Surgeon of Darjeeling, had, at his request, 
administered an infusion of Cinchona succirubra leaves, which had fallen off the in the 
plants spontaneously in the Nursery at Darjeeling, and that it had been found efficacious 
cure of cases of intermittent fever, without any other medicine whatever. 
With these favourable reports as to the value of the plant, its useful properties being 
so easily and immediately available in a decoction of the fresh leaves or bark, it must be 
quite unnecessary to urge the desirableness of an extensive distribution, and of a certain 
number being cultivated on every coffee estate. 
Some notes on the propagation and cultivation of the medical Cinchonas, by Mr. 
M‘Ivor, have been published by order of the Madras Governmeat. Experiments are yet 
wanting to ascertain the period of growth when the bark may be most profitably col¬ 
lected from the trees; also the best means of drying the bark when collected.— From 
Report on the Botanic Garden at Peradenia. 
UTILIZATION OF BRINE. 
At the usual meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow' this week, a very im¬ 
portant paper was read by Alex. Whitelaw, Esq., 55, Sydney Street, entitled “ A Prac¬ 
tical Application of Dialysis.” The paper set out with a detailed exposition of the dis¬ 
covery of, and experiments in, dialysis by Mr. Graham, of the Mint, after which Mr. 
Whitelaw stated the result of a process of his own for utilizing the brine of salted meat. 
When fresh meat, he said, had been sprinkled with salt for a few days, it was found 
swimming in brine. Fresh meat contained more than three-fourths of its weight of 
water, which was retained in it as in a sponge. But flesh had not the power to retain 
brine to that extent, and in similar circumstances it absorbed only about half as much 
saturated brine as of water, so that under the action of salt, flesh allowed a portion of its 
water to flow out. This expelled water, as might naturally be expected, was saturated 
with the soluble nutritive ingredients of the flesh ; it was, in fact, juice of flesh—soup, 
with all its valuable and restorative properties. In the large curing establishments of 
* ‘Pharmaceutical Journal/ vol. v, pp. 74 and 367. 
