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THE 



TECHNOLOGIST. 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF 



Science 3tppIicB to Ert antf ptamtfactttre. 



EDITED BY 



P. L. SIMMONDS, F.S.S., 



Autlior of " The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom? "A 

 Dktio'iiary of Trade Products" li The Curiosities of Food? <&c. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Potato and its Commercial Products. By the Editor... 97 



On the Sack-tree of Ceylon. By "W. C. Ondaatje 105 



Enamelled Cloth, or American Artificial Leather 106 



On Bitter Cassava. By Louis Hoffman 107 



The Steel Sea-Beach of Taranaki, New Zealand 112 



Mr H. Mead on the Productive Resources of Ceylon 115 



Indigenous Vegetable Productions of the Colony of Victoria. 

 By Dr Fredk. Mueller, F.R.S., Government Botanist 120 



Notes on the Economic Products of the Mallow Family. By 

 John E. Jackson , 123 



Reviews, Publications PwECEived, &c 125 



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