Introductory lecture delivered at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, at the opening of the 52nd session of the Army Medical School, 2nd April 1886 / by David B. Smith.

  • Smith, David Boyes, 1833-1889.
Date:
1886
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Introductory lecture delivered at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, at the opening of the 52nd session of the Army Medical School, 2nd April 1886 / by David B. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    36/48 (page 34)
    Calisaya plants collected by Mr. Markham reached England In a promising state, and they continued in that condition until they reached Alexandria. On their arrival, however, in the Nilgiri Hills (Madras) they were all in a dying state. Sonne cuttings were made from them, but not one of these struck root. The fate of Mr. Pritchett's plants of grey bark was quite as unfortunate, for they reached India either dead or dying. Mr. Cross's plants of Succi- 7-ubra, raised from cuttings at Limon, together with six Calisayas which had been raised at Kew in 1862, were the only living cinchona plants collected by Mr. Markham's triple expedition that reached India in good condition. Mr. Cross deposited his plants in Mr. Mclvor's hands at Ootacamund on April 19, 1861, in ex*cellent order. The supplies of seeds procured by the three expeditions were more fortunate than the plants. These were sent to the Koyal Garden at Kew, where some were retained and sown. A few of the plants brought from South America were also retained at Kew, so that a sort of reserve depot was formed there, in case of failure in India. The seeds not retained at Kew were sent to India, and they arrived at the Madras Hills in the early part of 1861. Meanwhile Dr. Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta, had been sent by the Indian Government to Java, with the double object of familiarising himself with the Dutch mode of cultivation and of conveying to India the plants which the governor of that colony had generously offered to the Government of India. Dr. Anderson returned from Java in November 1861. In December of the same year he went to Ootaca- mund, and made over to Mr. Mclvor, Superintendent of the Government Garden there, the plants he had brought from Java. On March 4, 1862, Mr. Cross's collection of pale bark seeds from Loxa (a town in the south of the Ecuador territory) arrived at :Madras, and the introdnc-