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effect, the smell, and the chemical reactions, that I can pronounce 

 with perfect certainty the poisonous matter of the Sarcolobus spa- 

 nogliei to be coniine." 



Conh'ne is the alkaloid to which is ascribed the poisonous nature 

 of the hemlock or Gonium maculatum — the plant, with the juice of 

 which, according to historical tradition, Socrates was put to death. 



In the Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederl. Indie, part 15, p. 

 478, also will probably appear a report on the value and effect of 

 the wait kambing. I regret that I cannot here make use of that 

 aper, the more so as it is from the hauds of our able chemist and 

 quinologist Beenelot Moens and his now deceased brother. 



It is known to the people in the neighbourhood here that, as 

 soon as a head of a cattle has been carried off by a tiger, informa- 

 tion is at once to be conveyed to me of the fact. 1 then send 

 persons who are accustomed to make their way through jungle and 

 waste, well armed, to the place where the slaughter has taken 

 place, and the carcase is by them strewn over with poison ( for a 

 buffalo a beer glass three-fourths filled is sufficient ; for a sheep or goat 

 much less is needed ) ; they are armed, because the tiger is sometimes 

 found to come back again to his prey very quickly. My brother 

 at Ardjasiri went himself two years ago to poison a sheep which 

 had the previous night been taken by a royal tiger out of the fold 

 in the middle of the factory kampong, and carried away close to 

 his house through the middle of his vegetable garden. (N. B. — 

 The door of the fold, made of plaited bamboo, to which the sheep 

 had been fastened, was dragged by the tiger for some distance.) 

 In the course of the day it was discovered where the tiger had 

 concealed the sheep. Then my brother, at about 5 in the after- 

 noon, forced his way through the high glagalt * to the place where 

 the sheep lay, he found the tiger already there, which wasbusy pre- 

 paring to carry the sheep further into the interior. 



The thick cane brake rendered impossible a good shot at the 

 beast of prey, which with amazing springs escaped from the bullet 

 intended for it. The sheep was thereupon carefully prepared, 



The grass saccharum apontanevm. 



