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RESULTS OF CHEMICAL EXAMINATION. 



Colour . . . . . . . . Light yellow 



Appearance . . . . . . . . Clear 



Specific gravity at 15.-5° C . . 0.8890 



Geraniol per cent . . . . . . 27.7 



Citronellal 54.7 



Solubility in 80 per cent alcohol . . 1 in 1 or more volumes. 



In a future number of the Bulletin I hope to publish 

 the results of analysis of other samples of Citronella oil, 

 and to give a general description of the origin and pro- 

 perties of the two distinct varieties of the oil on the market. 



In conclusion I have to thank Mr. J, Nevitt-Stevens of 

 Chenderiang Estate, Perak, for his kindness in permitting 

 me to publish the above analysis of this oil which was 

 derived from Chenderiang Estate. 



B. J. Eaton, 

 Government Chemist, F. M. S. 



A NEW RUBBER JOURNAL. 



We have received a copy of the first number of the 

 Bulletin de J 'Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc, 

 a new journal on rubber from the cultivator's point of view. 

 The journal is published in Antwerp where it is proposed to 

 establish a central office for the receipt and dissemination 

 of information on matters useful to members, to form a 

 library of works on the subject and to publish the Bulletin. 

 The Association is already founded and the Committee in- 

 cludes many well-known men whose names are familiar to 

 all Tropical Agriculturists. 



Active members, or technical members pay a subscrip- 

 tion of £4 per annum, ordinary Members 8 shillings. 

 Persons who endow the Association with £20 will be known 

 as Associates. The bulletin appears monthly at a cost of 

 12.50 francs to persons outside Belgium and Holland. The 

 articles are at present chiefly extracts from other journals 

 and commence by an article on the origin of the rubber 

 plantations which contains the same old errors as to the 

 Federated Malay States plantations being started by cut- 

 tings from the Peradeniya gardens in 1877 ! and by seeds 

 from the same place in 1886. These errors have been so 

 often pointed out that there is no necessity to repeat the 

 disproof. The distribution of seeds from the plantations 

 of Ceylon to Australia, Borneo, West Indies, Africa is 

 mentioned, but no mention is made of those exported from 



