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The constituent set down as " oil " in the table of analyses is the 

 ether-extract of the meals. In the case of C, the meal prepared from 

 the peels, it consists partly of wax and colouring matter. 



In the ash of the meal prepared from peels a notable quantity of 

 manganese was found. Traces of coppbr occurred in all the samples. 



Yours truly, 



(Signed) A. H. Church. 



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Bulletin, Kew Gardens, app. il and III 1899. [Director.] 



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 W. Indian and Com, Advertiser, Jan. [Editor.] 

 Climate, Jan. [Editor.] 



On the Influence of the Temperature of Liquid Hydrogen on the Ger- 



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 British Pharmacopoeia, 1898. Indian and Col-mial Addendum, 1899. 

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