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Dr. Huco MÜLLER, F.R.S., To- TREASURY: 
13, Park Square East, N.W 
E 17th December 1883. 
IN compliance vii the p— in your letter of the 
1th n I have carried ot a series. o£. —— with the view 
your questions 9% 
oe As: As to whether natüral nes icta matter is contained in saa 
sun-dried or : tobaceos;  — : 
"Ey "Whether such. sugar- ean be dist i ujrtiibed: wit paaria cer- 
— for Revenue purposes from that which may 2: added. 
I may state that my answers are both in the affirmative 
I regret P me unavoidable delay in rendering this report, but I felt 
that unless I could devote sufficient time to the carrying out of the 
experimental - necessary, my opinion iod m zy little weight. 
(Signed) ' Hees MÜLLER. 
Leonard H. Courtney, Esq., M.P., 
Treasury Chambers, S.W. 
Hijomr on the occurrence of Saccharine —Xs in — kinds of 
Commercial Tobacco 
In collecting we — ials for this investigation I took pains to secure, 
as much as pos , good representative specimens of the particular 
kinds of vaso i in quástion, and for this purpose I selected myself at 
wholesale houses the various samples I required from the hogsheads or 
óriginal nn et in ord the raw tobacco is — 
ared to of special importane o obiain also furtker 
evidence as » the presente of sugar ora kaat ne ete n the ka "nz 
tobacco plants, I applied to the authorities of Kew, and 1 have great 
fora supp in ves etm here the readiness with which my request 
or a supply of leaves was complied with in that quarter. I must, 
ever, not omit to mention that at the time when I was requested to 
undertake the present investigation, the season was alrea ady too far 
advanced for me to secure a seme r quantity of fresh material for an 
exhaustive examination of this subj 
The samples of commercial t tines were all of pale colour and most 
of zem were of the kind which in the trade is known as “sun-dried ” 
tobac 
The. following is a list of the I examined :— Alzerian, 
mea Gr eek, Turkish, Syrian, Chinese, Virginia leaf, Bright 
Vir 
The C— tests usually employed for the detection of sugar, or 
saccharine substances, established the fact that nearly all of them 
tained more or less, and after some preliminary trials I adopted the 
Du HN or tS one da process for the quantitative determinations. 
give following list the percentages of saccharine matter thus 
obtain pa 
Algerian : - - * none 
Kentucky - - = non 
reek + - - - - a trace, 
Turkish - - - - - 2°3 per cent, 
Syrian - ~ - "25 jf 
Chinese - * m * 
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