THE TECHNOLOGIST. 
RESEARCHES ON THE JUICE OF THE SUGAR CANE IN 
MAURITIUS, AND THE MODIFICATIONS IT UNDERGOES 
DURING MANUFACTURE. 
BY DR. # ICERY. 
President of the Chamber of Agriculture. 
Translated by James Morris, Esq., Eepresentative of the Chamber of Agriculture 
of Mauritius. 
I translate this memoir because it is the most complete and exhaustive 
analysis since the time when M. Pelignot published his remarkable con- 
tribution on a similar subject some years ago, and which was so valuable 
an addition to the then scanty literature of the sugar cane. But M. 
Pelignot had to work on incomplete and inadequate materials, and at the 
time of his researches was distant from the countries where the sugar 
cane is cultivated for commercial purposes. Dr. leery, the pupil of 
Dumas and Boussingault, is not only an able and experienced chemist, 
but is also one of the most influential sugar proprietors of sugar estates 
in Mauritius. The means of analysis at his command were, therefore, ample 
and continuous ; while, as President of the Chamber of Agriculture in 
the colony, this important contribution to the chemistry of the sugar 
cane was a graceful memorial of his year of office, which has been fully 
appreciated, not only by his colleagues, who are so capable of judging 
it, but also by the scientific men of Europe who have made this speciality 
their study. When read in connection with the marvellous triumphs of 
science in regard to beet-root sugar, and with the anomalies of our fiscal 
system of sugar duties, and the antagonistic opinions of eminent states- 
men on this question, this memoir will have an additional value for all 
those interested in the development of the sugar industry of out colonies 
and in the rectification of errors of all kinds, which,, up to the present 
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