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give two of them to Lever Bros.' palm oil enterprise in the 

 Congo, which is mostly worked by English capital. They are 

 building roads and narrow-gauge railways, and even mono- 

 rails, to carry bunches of palm fruits to their factories, and 

 the carriage of these bunches is a very difficult thing in the 

 centre of Africa, so they are going to try two of our elephants. 

 The agreement with the Belgian Government is that Messrs. 

 Lever get the two elephants free, but they are to obtain two 

 Indian Mahouts from Ceylon for these elephants so that they 

 shall be in good hands. That is the experiment we have now 

 in hand, which may be interesting perhaps to the Sudan and 

 some other places. 



The CHAIRMAN : I think you will all agree with me that the 

 communication made by M. Leplae is a very interesting one, 

 and we thank him sincerely for letting us know about these 

 African elephants. The information he has given may be 

 useful in other parts of Africa. 



SUE UNE MALADIE DU SAXAUL (ARTHROPHYTON 

 AMMODENDRON). 



Par BORIS DE FEDTSCHENKO, 



Principal Botanist, Imperial Botanic Garden of Peter the 



Great, St. Petersburg. 



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 [No abstract supplied by the author.] 



THE CHAIRMAN : I will on your behalf give M. de Fedtschenko 

 a very hearty vote of thanks for his communication, and I am 

 sure those who wish to get further information on the subject 

 will make the application which he suggests. 



The following papers were taken as read : 



THE ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF BRITISH SOMALILAND. 

 By R. E. DRAKE-BROCKMAN, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. 



[No abstract supplied by the author.] 



THE ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF THE TERRITORIES OF 

 THE COMPANHIA DO NYASSA. 



By VINCENTE ALMEIDA D'ECA, 

 General Secretary of the Companhia do N\assa. 



[No abstract supplied by the author.] 



