320 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (June, 1911. 
At the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 
(London, 1909), F. Vuaflart read a paper on the composition 
of wheat, in which he showed that the phosphoric anhydride 
varied from 0°759 to 0°988 per cent., in entire wheat, and from 
0°197 to 0°283 in the flour. Sixty-six parts are contained in the 
starch, 13-8 in purified gluten, 2°4 parts in the ether-alcohol 
extract of the gluten, and 17°8 parts in the wash waters. From 
these figures the average composition of wheat flour in Europe 
is similar to that of wheat flour in India 
Barley.—Three samples of barley (Hordeum vulgare) show 
a considerable difference in the amount of phosphorus: they 
contain according to the degree of husking they have been 
subjected to :— 
Ash P.O; 
Unpolished grain oe aoe & 94 
Barley, husked ae PMR t ‘65 
Pearl barley ax MR 3 53 
her instances of the composition of Indian cereal grains 
are here quoted :— 
Ash =; 2,0 5 
Bajri (Pennisetum typhoideum) ten tO 1:03 
aed 2? 2? cate 2:5 78 
Juar (Andropogon Sorghum) sock “70 
Marua (Hleusine coracana) es A "68 
Pulse.—The pulses constitute a class of food-stufis which 
are rich in phosphoric acid. Pigeon pea (Cajanus indicus), & 
pulse fed to pigeons, is a healthy diet, and no cases of neuritis 
have been known to occur when this is habitually given. The 
Marwaris are in the habit of employing various pulses as mung, 
besan and dal, and they are generally free from epidemic dropsy 
when their neighbours, the rice eaters, are attacked. The 
combination of dal with rice is a convenient means of increasing 
the phosphates in the diet, and corrects the deficiency usually 
found in the polished grain. The following analyses of pulses 
are recorded. 
Ash P.O; 
Arhar (Cajanus indicus) oo £0 “86 
Besan (Pisum sativum) oe “84 
Mung or dal (Phaseolus radiatus) .. 3:2 “95 
See Did 
Papar (A preparation of dal) Pai "85 
Lentils (Lens esculenta) ee ie ‘75 
Soy — hispida) 50 1-20 
Goa beans (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) 4°2 1:35 
In addition to the pulses, the Marwaris of Calcutta slg 
large quantities of leguminous and other green pods whic 
