ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 CEYLON BRANCH. 



REMARKS ON SOME ANALYSES OF THE 

 COFFEE OF CEYLON, WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR 

 THE APPLICATION OF MANURES. 



By Dr. Rudolph Gygax. 

 (Read June 9, 1849.; 



Having had my attention drawn to an account of 

 some analyses of the Jamaica coffee berry, made by Mr. 

 Herepath, the Liverpool chemist, I have paid some little 

 attention to the subject of the coffee plant of this Island, 

 forming as it does so very important a feature in the 

 resources of this Colony. The desire that I thus felt for 

 obtaining some information regarding the constituent parts 

 of the Ceylon tree and its fruit was heightened by a know- 

 ledge of the fact that not a few of those coffee estates 

 which once gave good promise of success are now in a very 

 precarious state of production. 



T much regret that the means at my disposal have not 



NOTICE. 



|V head-lines to Journal, Volume II., Nos. 4 

 and 5, omit " Part I." and " Part II." 



