Author: QUININE.- EAST INDIA (CHINCHONA PLANT)
Title: Return to an address of the honourable The House of Commons. dated 14 May 1866; - for, 'Copy of further correspondence relating to the introduction of the Chinchona plant into India, and to proceedings connected with its cultivation, from April 1863 to April 1866'.
Description: No place [London], the House of Commons, 1866. Sm. folio. W. 4 pls., 2 col. lith. maps [1 large folding & 1 full page] and some woodc. text ills. 1950ties polished hlf.clf., over blue and red oilspot marbled brds., w. black titleshield, giltlett. [n3, A - Z4, Aa - Gg4, Hh2, Ii1, Kk4 - Zz4, 3A4, 3B4, 3C1, 3D2]. (VI, 379, I (blank) pp.). (Prelims n1-n3 & 3D2, pp. i - vi & p. 379, margins chipped and a few smaller tears; the printed title top margin a small part gone resulting in the loss of a 2 capital letters [ND] in 'India' ). ). Waring vol. I, 361: 'Contains monthly reports of the plantations on the Neilgherry Hills; annual reports for 1863/65, with details of method of propagation and cultivation, barking, mossing, attacks of insects, illustrated by woodcuts and four plates; report of Cross's journey to Pitayo, with map; cinchona cultivation in Wynaad, Coorg, the Pulney Hills, and Travancore, with map; in British Sikkim, The Kanmgra Valley (Punjab), the Bombay presidency, and Ceylon.-'

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