ALKALOIDS IN JAVANESE CINCHONA. 
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for the most part been constructed by physicians, gentlemen whose post 
of duty is the bedside of the sick, not the pharmaceutical laboratory. The 
physician best knows what natural and artificial medicinal agents are admis¬ 
sible into the Materia Medica, but the pharmaceutist best knows how those 
materials are to be prepared and compounded. It is as irrational to delegate 
the compilation of a Pharmacopoeia to one class only as to the other. It is true 
that the British Pharmacopoeia contains better evidence of the labours of 
pharmaceutists than any previous Pharmacopoeia, but had the work been 
thrown open to comment before, instead of after its publication, or the opinions 
of pharmaceutists been elicited in some other way, a work might have been 
produced which should bear favourable contrast with the Pharmacopoeia of any 
other country, and have commanded the confidence of all interested in its pages. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
ON THE AMOUNT OP ALKALOIDS IN THE CINCHONA TREES 
CULTIVATED IN JAVA. 
BY DE. J. E. DE VEY. 
A. Cinchona Call say a. 
The materials of which the analytical results are contained in the annexed 
Table were the following :— 
No. 1. A tree grown in the open sunshine, on a very bad volcanic subsoil, at 
Tjibodas, 4500 feet above the sea. The tree, which was six years old, had died 
from disease. 
No. 2. A tree six years and a half old, grown in the same locality and under 
the same circumstances. Before its death it bore llowers and ripe fruits. 
No. 3. A tree six years and a half old, transplanted four years ago from the 
above-mentioned locality to the dense shade of the forest on the slope of the 
mountain Gede. Was nine feet high when it died. 
No. 4. A tree seven years old, grown at Tjiniroean, 4820 feet above the sea, 
on the mountain Malabar, in the light shade of Erytlcrina indica. Died with¬ 
out known cause. 
No. 5. A tree seven years old, grown and transplanted like No. 3. It had 
two stems, of which one died by disease and was cut off, whilst the remaining 
stem is still alive. 
No. 6. A tree seven years and a quarter old, grown and transplanted like 
No. 3. Died from disease. 
No. 7. A tree seven years old, grown in the open sunshine , iii a very bad 
volcanic subsoil, at Tjibodas, 4500 feet above the sea. Died strongly infected 
by mycelium. 
No. 8. A tree three years and a half old, grown from a cutting in the dense 
shade of the forest near Gedongbanteng, on the mountain Malabar, 5800 feet 
above the sea. Died infected by mycelium. 
No. 9. A thick branch from the oldest tree in Java, imported from Paris in 
April, 1852. The tree growing at Tjibodas in the straw"berry-*garden of the 
Governor-General is now more than twenty feet high. 
No. 10. A thick branch from a tree eighteen feet and a half high, growing 
in the dense shade of the forest on the slope of the mountain Gede, 4700 feet 
above the sea. 
No. 11. A tree seven years old, grown in the plantation Tjkoekoer, on the 
mountain Malabar, 5600 feet above the sea. Died from disease. 
