632 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS 



Reports by Messrs. Ribbentrop and Dunstan on a 

 tan extract plant for India, 1901. (Hi) Dr. Hooper's 

 Report published in the Agricultural Ledger of 1902, 

 No. i, pp. 35-36, which deals with Rhizophora mucronata. 

 (iv) An article entitled " Mangrove Barks, and Leather 

 Tanned with these Barks from Pemba and Zanzibar," 

 Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, 1904, pp. 163-166. (v) A 

 Report from, the Imperial Institute on Mangrove Extract 

 and Borneo Cutch by Professor Wyndham R. Dunstan, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Director of the Imperial Institute of 

 London, dated June 25, 1908. (vi) A Report from the 

 Imperial Institute, dated April 28, 1911, on Samples of 

 Mangrove Extract sent from the Government Tannin 

 Factory, Rangoon, (vii) A Note by Messrs. T. Steel and 

 G. Harrison Russel, published in the Journal of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry for March 15, 1912, entitled "The 

 Mangrove Bark of North Queensland and the Manufacture 

 of Mangrove Cutch," which deals with Rhizophora mucro- 

 nata, Rhizophora conjugate, Bruguicra gymnoyhisa, 

 Ceriops Candolleana, and other species, (viii) Indian 

 Forest Records, Volume III, Part IV, 1912 " Note on 

 the Preparation of Tan Extracts, with Special Reference 

 to those Prepared from the Bark of Mangrove (Rhizo- 

 phora mucronata)," by Puran Singh, F.C.S., Chemical 

 Adviser, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. (iv) A 

 Note entitled " Australian Mangrove Barks," published 

 in Volume XLI of Tropical Agriculturist, August, 1913. 



The above reports deal nearly exclusively with the value 

 of the bark for tanning, and clearly demonstrate its possi- 

 bilities and limitations. 



5. CONCLUSIONS. 



The conclusions arrived at after perusing the available 

 literature on the subject, and having inspected some of 

 the mangrove forests referred to in this note, are that 

 the possibilities of utilizing the bark commercially for 

 tannin extract are fair to good according to the locality 

 selected. Mr. Walker, in reviewing the position of 

 affairs in Arakan suggests forming mangrove reserves 

 which could be leased out to any firm obtaining a con- 



