MADE AS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



NO. 5.-NEW SERIES. 



October* — December, 1857. 



I. Report upon the Oils of Southern India. By Lieut. 

 H. P. Hawkes, S. A. C. G. 



The following Report upon the oils of Southern India has been 

 drawn up from notes taken during the formation of a collection of 

 oils for the Madras Government. The statistics have been fur- 

 nished by the Civil and Military authorities throughout the Presi- 

 dency.* 



The subject may be conveniently arranged under the following 

 sections. 



Sect. 1. Oil considered as an article of export trade. 



2. Abstract of oil cultivation in the several districts of 



the Presidency. 



3. A descriptive list of the oils of Southern India. 



4. Remarks .on the economical uses of oil in India. 



* Note.- It will be observed that iu many parts, especially in Section 3, this 

 report is almost identical with that in Class IV. of the Jury Reports of the Ma- 

 dras Exhibition of 1855. This arises from the writer of the present paper having 

 been requested to perform the duties of reporter in that section, and from his hav- 

 ing embodied in that report all the information on this subject collected up to that 

 date. 



