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value of “ Coca leaves yielding total alkaloids of * 80 penik. gee 
* be about 6d. to 8d. per pound, At present it is cult,” they » 
* to get a true valuation on aceountof absence of demand . . > . 
* The average price last year (1887) was about u 
— “ all round.” Ina letter dated the 9th November 1888 ce veo 
goyne state “very few parcels of Coca leaves now come before u 
* the market as the manufacturers of Cocaine either deal directly dr 
* the shippers of the leaves or possibly buy the crude extract for manu- 
** facturing purposes. The demand for the alkaloid increases, and the 
* imported under 26 cents (thirteenpence) per pound, and when the 
* small stock of 10,000 pounds is gone, higher rates will no doubt be 
* obtained for Huanuco leaves, The Truxillo leaves, on. the other 
* hand, are only used in pharmacy and for Coca wine. ed are as 
^* strong as the other kind in alkaloid, but the product v will not aot eH 
* tallise. The stock in hand, viz , 40,000 pounds, s 
* the price may probably go down to 15 cents levnpence h 
penny J,” 
z LXXVII —BEETLES DESTRUCTIVE TO RICE. JROPS 
I IN BURMA. 
Tum Arthur E. Shipley, F.L.S., Fellow of Christ College, aang 
. . and Lecturer on Entomology at the Indian Civil Engineering College, 
p Cooper 8 Bill communicates the following report. for publication i in thi : 
~ Bulleti We cr 
oe November a I aena a collection of — from. Bu I 
eges » and 
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