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BULLETIN OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 



This Bulletin was first published in 1903. It appears quarterly and 

 contains :— reports on investigations conducted in the Scientific and 

 Technical Department of the Imperial Institute ; articles and notes deal- 

 ing with mineral and vegetable economic products ; and a quarterly 

 summary of information on recent progress in agriculture and the 

 development of Natural Resources. 



Until this year the " Bulletin " has been published by the Imperial 

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 cow been undertaken by Mr, John Murray, 50a Albemarle Street, Lon- 

 don, W., and the first number of the new series has appeared. 



Contents of First Number. 



The principal contents of this first number are as follows :— 



Rubber resources of Uganda ; Some cotton soils of the Nyasaland and 

 Uganda Protectorates ; Kola nuts from British West Africa ; Coca leaves 

 from Ceylon and the Federated Malay States; Aromatic grass oils, Part III; 

 Hibiscus fibres from the Northern Territories, Gold Coast ; Timber from 

 Uganda ; Sumach from Cyprus ; Economic products from Mauritius ; The 

 coconut and its commercial uses, Part I ; Cultivation, preparation and utili- 

 sation of hemp and hemp seed ( Cannabis sativa) ; Cultivation and prepara- 

 tion of ginger; Agricultural work in Seychelles; Candelilla wax, Sisal 

 hemp in Quilimane ; New Zealand hemp ; Iron ore from Trinidad ; Copper- 

 mercury ore from Queensland ; Native labour regulations in Mozambique. 



Second Number. 



The second number now published has the following principal contents s 



Tobacco industry of Ceylon ; Some new gutta yielding plants from 

 the Gold Coast ; Ficus elastica rubber from Southern Nigeria ; "Balata 1 

 rubber (Ficus Vogelii) from Southern Nigeria ; The rubber of Cryptostegia 

 Grandiflora ; Silk from India ; Cotton and Sisal hemp from Papua 

 (British New Guinea); Fibres from India; Utilisation of Ccesalpinia 

 digyna ; Oil-seeds of Telfairia pedata ; Lophira oil-seeds from West Africa ; 

 Oils and oil-seeds from Hongkong ; West African cocoa; The cultivation 

 of cigar tobacco with special reference to Java ; The coconut and its 

 commercial uses, Part II ; Shea nuts and Shea butter ; Rubber tapping 

 experiments in Southern Nigeria ; Economic developments in the Belgian 

 Congo ; West Indian satinwood ; Oil of "Nepal" Camphor wood "; Citro- 

 nella grass ; Mesembrianthemum Mahoni roots from the Transvaal ; 

 Rubber Exhibition in Java; Cultivation of fibres in Java; "Root° 

 cotton " ; Perilla seed and oil. 



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