July 1, 1864.] THE TECHNOLOGIST. 



CONTENTS. V 



PAGE 



French Colonial Products in the Palais de L' Industrie, Paris. By- 

 Edmund Goeze 392 



The Timber Trees of Cetlon. By W. Ferguson, F.L.S. . . 403,481 



The Extension of Tea Plantations in India 414 



The Manufacture of Vegetable Oils 425 



Woods of the Philippine Islands 427 



Laboratory Notes. Museum of Irish Industry, Dublin . . 429, 591 

 On Granite and its Uses. By the late Professor George Wilson . 433, 495 

 On the Straw Plait Trrde. By A. J. Tansley . . . 448 



A Visit to the Works of the Patent Plumbago Crucible Company. 



By J. C. Brough 464 



Notes on Some African Vegetable Products. By John R. Jackson . 471 

 Industrial Museum, Leeds .......... 477 



History of the Gold Discoveries of New Zealand .... 510 



Compressed Asphalte 524 



Products of Distillation of Coal ........ 527 



Scientific Notes 47, 331, 384, 432, 479 



Manufacture of Paper Hangings 529 



Vegetable Materia Medica sold in the Bazaars of Baghdad, with 



Supplementary Notes. By M. C. Cooke ...... 537 



Pearl Fishery of Ceylon 546 



Silk Trade of Beyrout . 548 



Trade of Central Asia 550 



