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that two of them Avere associated with native vendors of drags, and that tlie whole 

 stock-in-trade of these worthies, varying from Galena to santal oiL was sent to the 

 laboratories for analvsis along: Avith the organs of the deceased. Their dnicrs are, as 

 a rule, harmless, but it is gi-atifying to know that the new sanitai-v regulations avIU R^uiation of 

 deal with such gentiy and so prevent much unnecessary work in the laboratories. ^^ 

 An opinion had to be given regarding blood stains (c) in a case of suspected murder, 

 while the plant analysis mentioned (</) was that of " Kusub," the product left after the 

 extraction of sim-sim (sesame) oil from the sesame oriental e. The result obtained 

 bore out ilr. Fitzojerald's ^ statement that it is an excellent food for working bullocks, 

 being employed largelv as such in India under the name of " gingelly-poonac."' 

 The sample was of the foUo's\'ing composition : — 



Water . . . . 7-70 



Value of 

 ' Kusub" 



Ash 



Fat 



Starch as sugar 



Total starch (bv difference) 



^Albuminoids 



Crude Fibre 



Less starch as sugai* 



8-80 

 11-07 

 11-97 

 26-43 

 34-50 

 11-50 



111-97 

 11-97 



100-00 



The soil analyses were in connection vdxh the disposal of sewage in Khartoum, soii anaijses 

 and interesting fi*om that standpoint. Thus \Trgin desert sand gave the foUoAving 

 results : — 



Moisture -8 per cent. 



Organic matter as Nitrogen . -0329 grams per cent. 



Free Ammonia . . -00085 



Fixed Ammonia . . '039 



while soil fi-om a sewage trench in the desert which had not been employed as such 

 for a period of eight months, \-ielded these figures : — 



Moistiu-e (air-dried sample) 



Oro;anic matter as Xitrogen 



Free Ammonia . . 



Fixed Ammonia 



,, .. iSand 



Composition- ,^, 

 ^ / L lav 



' BepoTt on the ImproTement and Possible DcTelopment of the Cnlti-saUle Products of the Sudan. — W. W. A. 



Fitzgerald, 1902 



