November, 1910.] 



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Miscellaneous. 



corn oils and the dozens of useful things 

 made from it, iucluding such unexpected 

 articles as rubber overshoes. 



From the educational point of view 

 the Commercial Museum has become a 

 very influential factor in the training of 

 young men for business life. There have 

 been distributed among the schools of 

 the State about fifteen hundred collec- 

 tions of commercial products including 

 photographs and maps arranged for the 

 study of particular localities throughout 

 the world, where certain articles are 

 produced. 



There has also been developed a sys- 

 tem of daily illustrated lectures to 

 schools, delivered in the auditorium by 

 members of the staff and profusely illus- 

 trated with stereopticon slides, follow- 

 ing which the students are conducted 

 through the sections where are found 

 the materials under discussion. This 

 service of the Commercial Museum is 

 extremely popular with the public and 

 private schools of the neighbourhood and 

 is taken advantage of by scholars of all 

 grades from the very young scholar up to 

 classes from our colleges and universities. 

 It is a wonderfully stimulating agency 

 for making young men and women 

 interested in the possibilities of business, 

 either at home or abroad. It is decidedly 

 a training that can only work the great- 

 est possible benefit to the community. 



An interesting and popular feature of 

 the Commercial Museum's work is the 

 use it makes of its large collection of 



photographic negatives and prints, now 

 numbering over 25,000 and increasing at 

 the rate of 2,000 every year. This col- 

 lection cannot be duplicated in this 

 country, and is without doubt one of 

 the best in existence, having been 

 gathered from all parts of the world for 

 the special purpose of illustrating the 

 life and industries of people of all 

 countries. Many prints of large size are 

 installed together with the exhibits to 

 which they relate, showing the methods 

 of production, use and transportation 

 practised in the various countries of the 

 world- Bookies serving in this manner 

 to educate the people the photographs 

 are of extreme interest to our manufac- 

 turers, and importers, since they show 

 the conditions to be met in foreign 

 markets. Under each State appropri- 

 ation for the educational work of the 

 Museum, its photographic laboratory 

 prepares from 50,000 to 75,000 prints 

 which are distributed among the public 

 schools of the state. 



Lantern slides are also made in great 

 numbers for the illustrated lectures 

 given to visiting classes and the general 

 public and on loan to schools throughout 

 the state. 



The laboratory is well supplied with 

 inscruments and apparatus necessary to 

 make the bromide enlargements, which 

 illustrate the exhibits of the Museum, 

 as well as photomicrographs for use in 

 technical shools. 



(To be continued.) 



Reviews. 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY OF THE 

 ISLAND OF NEGROS. 



(Philippine Islands;) 

 By H. S. Walker. 



(Published by the Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, 1910). 



Few agricultural industries in the Tro- 

 pics have had such good reason to say 

 " save me from my friends (or enemies)" 

 as sugar. It is difficult to get at true 

 figures of yield, &c, on account of the 

 exaggerations of enthusiasts, and the 

 depreciations of pessimists. The paper 

 before us (a well illustrated volume of 

 144 pp) is the first serious attempt ao a 

 reliable account of the industry in the 

 Philippines. 



The island of Negros, the most impor- 

 tant sugar district of the Philippines, 

 contains 484 sugar planters, cultivating 

 63,000 acres, or an average of 130 acres, and 

 producing 73,462 metric tons of sugar, or 

 on the aveiage l£ tons an acre. Labour is 

 somewhat of a difficulty, having all to 

 be imported from other islands, at an 

 average rate of 37 rupee-cents a day, 

 with food, which costs about 23 cents 

 more. The labourers receive money 

 advances. 



The book then goes on to deal with 

 the different districts, giving areas, kinds 

 of soil, yields, etc., and with methods of 

 cultivation, manufacture of sugar from 

 the cane, and similar matters. No one 

 who is interested in sugar dan afford to 

 neglect this book, but as sugar is only 

 grown in Ceylon on a very small scale, 

 we shall not further discuss it. 



