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could be removed more expeditiously, and in greater 
quantity than it was in this instance. 
Any one of my Yeaders can satisfy himself that it is 
indeed a wax, and burns exactly like wax candles, by 
collecting a small quantity of it into a heap and setting 
fire to it with a match. The flame is very white and 
beautful, so long as it lasts. 
Professor Gray, at page 60, section 86 of his ‘“ Botani- 
cal Text-Book,” supposes from the fact that bees produce 
wax from sugar, and that the wax of the sugar cane 
sometimes passes into sugar, that the vegetable wax found 
in plants is formed of sugar, or similar products. The 
Ceroxylum Andicola, or Wax-bearing Palm, is an instance 
of the considerable secretion of wax by a vegetable. 
Mr. Hardy has been attacked in various French journals 
for his unwise championship of this novel product; but 
with a persistence either the result of constitutional pro- 
clivity, or because warranted by the facts which he has 
actually arrived at in his Algerian experience, he writes 
to Count Gasparin that he desires his investigations to be 
remembered, and his assertions to be put on record for 
future reference, that he is more convinced than ever 
that the wax of the sorgho will indeed be one of its most 
valuable products. 
SORGHO PAPER. 
In the books of M. Duret and Dr. Sicard are pasted 
specimens of paper, respectively obtained by them from 
the pulpy sorgho stalks, of which that in Dr. Sicard’s 
book is, I think, the best. It presents the appearance 
