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Canadian and Cape minerals and other products have 
been under investigation, also Cape and Australian wines 
have been chemically examined and reported upon. Reports 
from manufacturers and experts upon the probable com- 
mercial value are also obtained at the same time. 
Amongst the scientific referees are Prof. Church, F.R.S8., 
on cereals; Prof. Armstrong, F.R.S., on terpenes and 
volatile oils; Prof. Unwin, F.R.S., and others, on the 
strength of materials; and Prof. Judd, C.B., F.R.S., on 
minerals. 
There is a department for commercial intelligence, also for 
collections of minerals and products from India, Canada, 
Australia, and the other Colonies, which are utilised for 
instruction by the curators lecturing upon their contents on 
certain days, of which public notice is given. 
Further free public lectures are given upon the Colonies, 
and these are very largely attended by appreciative and 
rapidly-increasing audiences, composed mainly of working- 
men. 
Collections of Colonial products are, where the supply of 
material is sufficient, being made,up and distributed to 
provincial districts. Twenty-four collections were sent out 
last year, and more will be made up and sent out on receipt 
of material from the Colonies. These will do much to dis- 
seminate a knowledge of the Colonies throughout the United 
Kingdom. 
Further, there are courses of evening lectures once a 
week for the Fellows and their friends during the winter. 
A journal is published monthly, devoted to the work of 
the Institute and to Indian and Colonial matters which are 
likely to promote the objects of the institution. 
There is no doubt that the institution is now fulfilling 
one of its intended objects, and is becoming a most valuable 
means of disseminating a knowledge of the products_and 
manufactures of the Indian Empire and of 
