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ON THE RED VARIETY OP PITAYO BARK. 
EXAMINATION, Wednesday and Friday , July 20th and 22nd, 18G4. 
MAJOR. 
Appleton, Robert.. 
Berdoe, Edward . 
Bingley, John. 
Chambers, James . 
Faulkner, James M. 
Gowland, George R. 
Griffith, William H.. 
Hickman, William . 
Hitchcock, Chas. G. 
Mayfield, John Thos. 
Norrish, Henry . 
Pasmore, Frederic Rich. 
Watts, John. 
MINOR. 
Barnett, Alexander.Buxton. 
Barton, Hemy.Newark. 
Child, Henry .Halesworth. 
Farnsworth, Thomas .Codnor. 
Fitt, Francis E.Barking. 
Garside, Thomas.Southport. 
Hearder, Harry P.Plymouth. 
Hudson, John William .Bradford. 
Isherwood, James .London. 
Martindale, William .Carlisle. 
Moulton, James E.Northampton. 
Oldfield, Francis .Dover. 
Sargent, George W.Liskeard. 
Wearing, Richard H.Liverpool. 
.Sheffield. 
.London. 
East Retford. 
Belper. 
London. 
.Sunderland. 
.Bristol. 
.Maidstone. 
.Oxford. 
. W olverhampton. 
.Crediton. 
.London. 
.London. 
Ilampson, Robert 
EDINBURGH. 
MAJOR. 
Alderley Edge, Cheshire. 
Erratum. —Vol. V. page 592, for “Howell, Maurice, 5s.” read “ 10s. 6d” 
Vol. VI. page 6, for “John C. Appleton” read “ Thomas C. Appleton.’ 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
ON THE RED VARIETY OE PITAYO BARK. 
BY J. E. HOWARD, F.L.S., ETC. 
Mr. Robert Cross, who was employed to collect seeds of the Chinchonse on 
behalf of the Indian Government, in the district of Popayan, sent over recently 
the bark, together with the seeds, of that which he calls “ the red variety of 
Pitayo, the best of all.” He gave ten ounces of this bark to Dr. Jameson, of 
Quito, who says it is the true Pitayo bark of New Granada, and extracted 3*2 
j)er cent, of quinine from it. Mr. Markham, in sending me the seeds, writes 
as follows:—“I enclose some specimens of bark and some seeds of Chinchona 
