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have got access to the cane juice in the early stages of sugar manufacture. 
The other is that the tissues of the sugar-cane may under certain 
dm themselves as a citric acid ferment, just as Pasteur has shown that 
n the absence of oxygen alcohol may be produced in fruits and without 
the intervention of yeast. 
Such an occurrence would seem to be accidental and only occasional 
lemon 
plant is the result of a wi action on sugar and not, as c 
thought, a stage in its buildin 
r. Hugo Müller further states "ak according to a private communi- 
cation, the experiments already carried out on a manufacturing scale 
foreibidow the possibility that citric acid may eventually be produced 
cheap enough to replace tartaric acid in most of its dei aa ions 
CCCLXX.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. F. M. Banery, F.L.S., the abolition of whose post by the 
Government of Queensland was recorded in the Kew Bulletin for 
Dovesibor last (p. 366), Ye been re-appointed Colonial Botanist. 
The Veitch Memorial Medal—The Trustees of the Veitch Memorial 
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* jn Hao iie of his skill as a hybridiser and eultivator of exotic 
plant 
Timbaran Tree of N.E. Borneo.—In some notes in the British North 
Borneo Herald for May 1st, 1893, it is stated that * most of the women 
* (of the Hill tribes) wear a loose blouse of blue cloth, with a cape of 
“ a poke bonnet, a girdle of cloth or twisted bark ornamented with brass 
“ or silver rings completes the costume. The only covering used by the 
* menisa Mee fragment of bark.” 
As the e Timbaran was unknown in the Museum in connexion 
with any Porini product, though from the fact of the bark being used 
for clothing it was strongly suspected to belong to a species of “Arto- 
carpus, application was made to the Secretary of the British North 
Museum of the Royal Gardens, specimens of the bark in its natural and 
p ates, as well as a garment made from the bark, and samples of 
the foliage, eie and fruit to assist in the determination of the species. 
I o this applieation specimens have been receiv ee from 
Governor cien C.M.G., enclosing a copy of a letter addressed to him 
by Mr. P. F. Wise, dated Papar, September 20th, 1593, from w hich the 
following extracts are take 
“ It is difficult to get good specimens of acoat and of fruit and flowers 
without going into the interior oneself to get them. The flower I have 
been unable to get. The tree from which the bark is taken is a species 
of — and to an inexperienced eye cannot be distinguished from that 
