The TITLE-PAGE and INDEX for the SECOND VOLUME will be given -with the AUGUST 



NUMBER. 



No. XXIV.— Vol. II. JULY, 1862. Price Is. 



THE 



TECHNOLOGIST. 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF 



Science %pltetr to &rt anB manufacture. 



EDITED BY 



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



Author of " The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom,'''' " A 

 Dictionary of Trade Products" " The Curiosities of Food" Spc. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Ailanticulture— Its History and Commercial Eelations. 

 By James Morris 401 



An Account of the Botanical and Mineral Products useful 

 to the Chipewyan Tribes of Indians Inhabiting the 

 McKexzie Eiver District. By Bernard E. Boss 404 



On the Glass of Pompei 408 



Notes on the Silk-producing Insects of India and its 

 Adjacent Countries. By Frederic Moore 410 



The Fibres of Trinidad. By Herman Cruger, Colonial 

 Botanist 419 



Our Coal-Tar Dyes. By "William Procter, M.D., F.C.S, ... 427 



On the Cultivation of Cotton in Italy 431 



The Forest-Trees of New Brunswick. By D. E. Munro... 434 



On Sombrerite. By Dr. T. L. Phipson, F.C.S 442 



Siamese Products. By Sir Eobert H. Schomburgk, H.M.'s 

 Consul-General 444 



Eeviews 450 



Publications Eeceived 452 



LONDON" : 

 KENT & CO., PATEENOSTEE EOW. 



