192 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS FROM OTHER JOURNALS, 
The same author has examined copra or dried cocoa-nuts, and 
the cake left after expressing the oil, the latter of which is 
enemas as a cattle fodder in England, with the following 
sults ; 
Cocoa-nuts. Oil-cakes. 
Water an was eat 5°80 11°89 
atc. ne eee 70) BO 12°34 
Cellulose, &e, va 1 24:8) 69°66 
Ash... ee ees DD 6711 
100-00 100-00 
Nitrogen per cent. ts pene 
Phosphoric anhydride per cent, in nash ... 24°35 
Nuts or ALeurires Trinopa. B. tema i i (Compt. Rend. 
LXXXI, 43.) The nut consists of 33 per cent. of kernel and 67 per 
cent. of endocarp. The kernel has the following composition :— 
a a cae 5000 
rp re ss U2 tdD 
Nitrogen sieeooe ie sa ... 22°653 
Non-nitrogen Ae PESO... Saat 
A i. ies ve a ni eee 
100-009 
* Containing nitrogen 35 : -» 3°625 
The ash of the hebial OO os 
a. e =a Hn Pre of fag 
Magn oe so ... 0°65 > Soluble in water. 
Phosphoric o oxide ve -. 14°32 
fee ut as ee Sra] 
Silica :. o ae ae pes Insoluble in water. 
Phosthorie a ee See 
100-00 
The cake obtained from the nuts after decortication contained :— 
Water te 
Oil... Be Sh ed, oe 
Nitrogenous tara oo ae ee 
Non-n ingen Wee ui nwcde snout 
caee osphor, Boies es eee 
Mégnenia lime, silica, &e, a ee woe a 
100°00 
* Containing nitrogen 765 
Although from its purgative alii the oak is not ee 
for » it forms a good manure, The expressed ¢ oil ig ale 
bi oN ga and its lighting didi even without refining, 1s 
