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the Eastern Archipelago, lying to the east of Sumatra) was exhibited at the 

 Great Exhibition of 1851. It may have been the same as that obtained in 

 the neighbouring island of Sumatra from Ficus cerifera, and already alluded 

 to under its native name of Getah Lahoe. 



Goingamadon. — A trial has been recently made in the nursery-gardens 

 established by the French Government in Algeria to cultivate a tree 

 new to Europe, which is called the Goingamadon, or wax-tree of Cayenne. 

 This tree furnishes a kind of wax exactly similar to that in common use, 

 and possessing all the useful properties of beeswax. The tree grows 

 freely, and costs little ; and it has been calculated that each full-grown stem 

 will yield from 45 to 50 lb. of wax annually. A quantity are about to be 

 planted on the Government lands. 



Maeurra. — A kind of vegetable wax may be obtained at Mozambique, 

 on the eastern coast of Africa, which would be available for the manufac- 

 ture of candles. It was recently analysed at the International Exhibition 

 of Paris : the estimated quantity obtained annually is 32,000 lb. The native 

 name of the tree which secretes this substance is Mutiana. It is obtained 

 in the largest quantities at Juhaniban. A communication on this wax 

 was made to the Institute of France by MM. Oleveira Pimentel and J. 

 Bonis. In 1857, 746 cwt. of vegetable wax, valued at 3,1 70Z., were 

 imported ; in 1858, 2,081 cwt., of the value of 8,823Z. ; and in 1859, 

 31,547 cwt., of the value of 110,406Z. 



MAUVE AND MAGENTA. 



BY ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S. 



The ancients prided themselves upon the possession of the Tyrian 

 Purple, obtained by a peculiar process from one of the Mollusca of the 

 Mge&n Sea. The moderns may, with far more reason, be proud of their 

 Perkins's Purple, derived, by the refinements of chemical science, from 

 refuse matter of our gasworks. 



To the story of the modern colour we invite attention, premising that 

 under the generic term given above, originating in the name of the in- 

 ventor, Mr W. H. Perkins, we include Mauve, Magenta, Solferina, Azaleine, 

 Eoseine, Violine, Fuchsiacine, and those other beautiful varieties of colour 

 which are produced by our dyers in silk, wool, or cotton. 



When a lady arrays herself in a fine example of our silk manufacture 

 in either of these colours, she cannot but feel she is indebted for a new 

 pleasure to the science that produced it. We never possessed any tint in 

 which there was so much depth, or intensity, with so little of that glare 

 which becomes offensively obtrusive. The colours, too, are absolutely new ; 

 they are neither the rose, the violet, the peach, nor the blossom, in which 

 our mothers prided, but they are those, with something superadded. The 



