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The Trade in Nuts. By the Editor 456 



The Furniture Woods of Commerce. By the Editor .... 462 



Notes on Mtrobalans. By M. C. Cooke 470 



On Indian Civet. From Notes and Observations by Dr. McClelland and 



B. H. Hodgson 473 



The Manufacture of Composite Candles at Clicht By J. Turgan . 481 



Tropical Fibres. By G. E. Squier 486 



Our Oil Flasks 489 



The Tobacco Pipe Manufacture, Pipe Clays, axd Meerschaum. By 



John George Reynolds 497 



The Wines Shown at the International Exhibition of 1862. By J. 



B. Keene 507 



Paper Making. — Ulmate of Ammonia 513 



A Few Remarks on Bleaching Powder. By Murray Thomson, M.D., 



F.R.S.E 519 



Leather Cloths 522 



Gas Works in Cermant 524 



Rimmel's Table Fountain. ( With an Illustration ) . . . ... 525 



On the Culture of the Ground Nut in Gambia, Western Africa. 



By Governor D'Arcy .......... 527 



On the Destruction of noxious Insects by means of the Pyrethrum. 



By C. Willemot . . ......... 534 



The Strawberry, its Species, Native Localites, and Normal Sexual 



Character. By Wm. R. Prince ........ 543 



The Guar ana of Brazil. By T. C. Archer •. . . . . . 552 



Hints gn Paper Materials. By Benjamin Lambert . . . . 554 



Uninflammable Stuffs 555 



On the Manufacture of Nickel. By Lewis Thompson, M.R.CS. . 556 



Scientific Notes 47, 142, 191, 238, 384, 432 



Reviews . . . . , . . . ... . 95, 335 



