Pun i - of the Imported 1 



■ Wax at Ningpo during the Years 



These prices were obtained by the Foreign Customs for the 

 purpose of estimating the values in their returns. They are given in 

 Hai-kwan Taels per Treaty Pieul of 133f lbs. 



List of Authoritie 



ai-kuan Tad 

 White Insect Wax 





1. Martini's Atlas Sinensis, 1655. 



2. Pere Gaspar Chauseaune : Memoir published in Panth. lib. III. 



830, 1750. 



3. Id. : Memoir in Lettres Edifiantes, &c., vol. XXIIL, pp. 146seqq. 



(Paris 1781.) 



4. L'Abbe Grosier. 



5. Sir George Staunton. 



6. Comptes itendus for 1844. Tome X., page 618. 



7. Stanislaus .Tulien: Industries do TEmpire ChinoK p. 109. Trans- 



lated from the " Nung Cheng Ch' iian Shu." 



8. Dr. Macgowan's paper in the Journal of the Agricultural and 



Horticultural Society of India, vol. VII., 1850. 



9. Pharmaceutical Journal, Feb. 1862. 



10. Hanbury : Notes on Chinese Materia Medica, p. 46, 1862. 



11. Id. : Science Papers, page 60. 



12. Roxburgh : Flora Indica, vol. I., p. 148. 



13 WyKe : Memoir in th China Branch of the 



ftoyal Asiatic Suiety for 1868. 

 14. Mesny : Monograph in ' k N. China Dady News." 



fen: Letters to the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, 



No. VII, of May 1872, page 52. 



