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FEW subjects have been so frequently before pharmaceutical readers during the past ten or fifteen years as the efforts of the governments of Holland and Great Britain to introduce the various species of Cinchona into their respective colonies. It would be hardly possible to overrate the importance of the enterprise, and it is one that interests alike the pharmaceutist, the botanist, and the votary of economic science. The records of progress which have been made public are so scattered and unconnected, the opinions and reports so conflicting, that it has been difficult for the general reader to retain the thread of the story or to arrive at any very clear estimate of the present position and prospects of the undertaking. The earliest steps in this great experiment in acclimatisation date back to a period before that which we have had under review, but so far as results are concerned, the subject is one which pertains essentially to the past few years, and I propose to place before you, in as few words as may be, and unencumbered by the controversial matter with which its literature abounds, an outline of the beginning of the enterprise and of its present practical aspect.
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Cinchona Culture * . Nature 8, 555–556 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008555a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008555a0