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ий by retailers would be impossible, › hen it is remembered 
th 1 
is apparent, eomargarine cannot be sold as butter, neither should 
“ coffee substitutes" be made to masquerade under the name of Java, 
Mocha, or Rio.” 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION to Royan GARDENS, Kew. 
United States National Museum, Washington, 
March 80, 1891. 
Drar Mm. THISELTON DYE 
I TAKE pleasure in infor orming you that I have succeeded in 
obtaining samples of bogus ecffee for which you expressed a desire in 
your letter of January 17. 1 have sent them forward to you through 
the Smithsonian Bureau of International Exchan 
Wesley and Son will notify you of their receipt, and transmit them to 
m, &е. 
(Signed С, Brown GOODE: 
W, T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., C.M.G., F.R.S 
Royal Gardens, hig 
ee production of artificial coffee has also received eres aitention in . 
Germany. According to the Magdeburgische Zeitung (quoted in the — — 
oard of Trade Journal, March, 1891, p. 301), an Imperial жене W 
be looked upon as such, but are i intended to odi уч in trade for то i EC 
energy towards the discovery of some cheap compound with the an- 
deniable object of deceiving the publie. In the meantime the sale of — — 
such compound is not to be | prohibited, provided it be known by such B 
name as will ex éhide all possibility of deception. x 
will be — however, from the eme d — at. 
iba Fonit Office from Her Majesty’s Chargé 4 res at Berlin the- 
production of men ey coffee beans in Germany has om е. prohibited by | 
law, and no samples have so far been obtainable from that country, 
The Hon, P. Н. Le Porr Tresca to ад OFFICE. ` - 
Mv Lonp lin, June 30, 1891. p? 
Wirm reference to your cuiu ha depute No. 32 of this. 
series, of the sth of April last, I €: the honour to report ape I have | 
‘made inquiries in this city, as well as im other p it 
