Vol. VIII. No. 87. 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL 
Vol. VIII. No. 87. LONDON. MARCH, 1902. 
GENERAL NOTICES. 
“THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL.” 
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LECTURE AND CONCERT ARRANGEMENTS. 
LECTURES. 
The following Illustrated Public Lectures have been arranged for 
March : — 
Mon., 3rd March, at 8.30 p.m. “ New Zealand, her Record and her 
Destiny,” by Edward Wakefield, Esq. In the Chair: The Right 
Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Bart., M.P., G.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., C.I.E., 
formerly Governor of New Zealand. 
Mon., 10th March, at 8.30 p.m. “ The Poverty of India/' by J. D. Rees, 
Esq., C.I.E. 
Mon., 17th March, at 8.30 p.m. “Home Life in Canada,” by Hamar 
Greenwood, Esq. In the Chair: Lt.-Col. N. Willoughby Wallace, 
Commanding the King’s Colonials, Imperial Yeomanry. 
Mon., 24th March, at 8.30 p.m. “Nova Scotia,” by John Howard, Esq., 
Agent-General for Nova Scotia. 
Admission to the Lecture-Hall by the first entrance to the Imperial 
Institute coming from Exhibition Road. 
Seats are reserved for Fellows, who have also the privilege of admitting 
two Friends for each Lecture, or Address, by reserved seat tickets. 
A special series of Afternoon Lectures and Demonstrations will 
be given by R. Hedger-Wallace, Esq., formerly of the Departments of 
Agriculture and Education, Victoria, Australia, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 
commencing on Tuesday, March 4th, at 4.30 p.m., on “The Commercial 
Products and Agricultural Resources of the Crown Colonies.” Professor 
Wyndham R. Dunstan, F.R.S., Director of the Scientific and Technical 
Department of the Imperial Institute, will take the Chair at the Opening 
Lecture. The subject will be divided as follows : — ■ 
Tues., 4th March, at 4.30 p.m. Introductory. “ The North Atlantic Group.” 
Thurs., 6th March, at 4.30 p.m. “ The North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Mediterranean 
Groups.” 
Tues., nth March, at 4.30 p.m. “The Indian Ocean Group.” 
Thurs., 13th March, at 4.30 p.m. “ The Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal Groups.” 
Tues., 18th March, at 4.30 p.m. “ The China Sea and Australian Groups.” 
Thurs., 20th March, at 4.30 p.m. “The Pacific Ocean Group.” 
Admission to these Lectures and Demonstrations, which will be open free 
to the Public, will be by the Fellows’ (Queen’s Gate) Entrance to the Institute, 
The Demonstrations will be given in the Galleries of the Institute con- 
taining the exhibits of the Colonies under consideration, at 3.30 p.m. to 
4.15 p.m., on the day of the succeeding lecture. 
CONCERTS. 
The Evening Concerts for Fellows and their friends will be continued 
during the Winter Season, 1901-2, and will take place in the Jehangier 
Hall on certain Wednesday evenings, the dates of which will be announced 
in due course. 
The following Concerts will take place this month : — 
Wed., 5th March, 8.30 p.m. Concert by the Imperial Institute 
(Amateur) Orchestra. Chairman of Orchestral Committee , Frank H, 
Butler, Esq. Hon. Leader, Louis II. d’Egville, Esq. Hon. Con- 
ductor, A. Randegger, Esq. 
The programme will include the following 
Symphony in D Major, No. 31 
Three Dances (From Gretry’s Ballet “Cephale et Procris”) 
(a) Berceuse \ From Suite 
(b) Bacchanalian Dance j' “The Tempter” 
Overture . . . “ La Dame Blanche ” 
Barcarola Romantica (For Violin and Orchestra) 
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Mozart. 
Arr. by Felix Mott l . 
Edward German. 
Solo Violin 
Mr. Louis II. d’Egville. 
Boield ieu. 
A. Randegger, Junr. 
Coronation March 
Edward German. 
Vocalist . Miss Gertrude Lonsdale. 
Wed., 26th March, 8.30 p.m. Concert by the Imperial Institute 
(Amateur) Orchestra. 
Fellows have free admission to the Concerts, and can purchase tickets 
at 2S. 6d. each) for the admission of their Friends. 
FELLOWS’ DEPARTMENT. 
The Reading, Writing, and News Rooms, are open for the use of 
Fellows every week-day from 10 a.m. till 11.30 p.m., and on Sundays from 
3 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. The Library (on the First Floor), is open from 
10 a.m. to dusk on Week-days, and from 3 p.m. to dusk on Sundays. The 
Map Room (First Floor) is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Week-days. 
The Poste Restante is open every week-day for receipt and delivery of 
letters and parcels. Letters addressed to initials only are not received, except 
in reply to notices in the Journal, under “ Requirements ” Registry. The 
General Post Office Pillar Box is cleared daily twelve times, between 10. 10 a.m. 
and midnight. Light refreshments only are, for the present, provided in 
the Fellows’ Rooms and at the bar of the Ceylon Kiosk. 

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT. 
The Scientific and Technical Department of the Institute has been 
established to acquire information by special enquiries and by experimental 
research, technical trials and commercial valuation regarding new or little 
known natural or manufactured products of the various Colonies and 
Dependencies of the British Empire and of foreign countries, and also 
regarding known products procurable from new sources, and local products 
of manufacture which it is desired to export. This work is carried out with 
a view to the creation of new openings in trade, or the promotion of 
industrial developments. 
In the extensive and well-equipped series of Research Laboratories 
occupying the West Corridor of the Second Floor, a staff of skilled Chemists, 
under the direction of Professor Wyndham R. Dunstan, M.A., F.R.S., carry 
out the investigation of the chemical constitution and properties of new dye- 
stuffs, tanning materials, seeds and food-stuffs, oils, gums and resins, fibres, 
timbers, medicinal plants and products ; animal products, minerals and ores, 
soils, cements, and various other products, with a view to their commercial 
utilization. Whenever necessary these materials are submitted to special 
scientific experts, by whom they are made the subjects of particular investiga- 
tion or practical tests. Reports are also obtained from technical or trade- 
experts in regard to the probable commercial or industrial value of any 
such products, whilst full information is collected from official or other 
trustworthy sources regarding the probable extent and cost of available 
supplies. All materials requiring scientific or technical examination, or com- 
mercial valuation, should be submitted to the Institute for examination either 
by, or through, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the India Office, or 
the Board of Trade, or through the Colonial or Indian Government 
Authorities. Requests for the examination of such materials may also be 
submitted by Public Commercial Bodies and Institutions of the respective 
Colonies and Dependencies, or by the Representatives of H.M, Government 
in foreign countries. 
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT. 
The Office of this Department, in the West Corridor, First Floor, is open 
daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (on Saturdays till 1 p.m.), for the purpose of 
answering enquiries and supplying information relating to the Commerce 
(Export and Import) and Industries of India and the Colonies. Applications 
may be made personally or by letter. Special information may be obtained 
from the Curators in charge of the Indian and of certain Colonial Collections. 
Arrangements have been made for the translation for mercantile firms of 
Trade Circulars, Price-Lists, and Catalogues into any Foreign Language, 
including the conversion of weights, measures and coinages, etc., at cost 
price, and application for such may be addressed to this Department. 
COMMERCIAL COLLECTIONS. 
The Galleries containing the Colonial and Indian Collections, 
and the Public Commercial and Industrial News Room, are open 
for free inspection by the public daily, except Sundays, and any days 
specially iiotified , from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Every information concerning 
the products, their supply, etc., can be obtained on application to the 
Curators of the Indian and Ceylon, Canadian, and South African Sections, 
to the general Curator, and to the Commercial Intelligence Department. 
CITY BRANCH OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 
The City Branch of the Imperial Institute, at 112, Cannon-street, 
E.C., is open to Visitors on week-days from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. The Branch 
includes a News Room, supplied with many British and Foreign Commercial 
Publications, Market Reports, etc., and an Enquiry Office in telephonic com- 
munication with the Commercial Information Office of the Imperial Institute. 
The News Room and Enquiry Office are free to Fellows of the Institute ; 
other persons are admitted on payment of fii annually. 
Subscribers are entitled to inspect, free of charge, any maps or charts 
included in the Map Room collection at the Imperial Institute, South 
Kensington, and to consult any works, or official papers, included in the 
Institute Library. 
The Information Department will undertake to obtain analytical or other 
examinations of samples by competent Experts, upon payment, by persons 
submitting them, of the usual professional fees, to be previously specified, and 
agreed to by the applicant. (For further information see page 76). 
THE NORTHBROOK SOCIETY. 
The Northbrook Society is affiliated to the Imperial Institute, and has 
a special room allotted for the exclusive use of its members in the Institute 
buildings. Its primary objects are to watch over and promote the interests 
of natives of India, and to provide a system of guardianship or supervision 
over such as are sent to Europe for education. The Society is controlled by 
a committee consisting of an equal number of Governors of the Imperial 
Institute and members of the Society, presided over by the Earl of Northbrook. 
It possesses an excellent library. Indian members, who pay no subscrip- 
tion to the Society, have the especial advantage of becoming Fellow r s of the 
Institute at half the usual subscription payable by the ordinary Fellows. 
Applications for membership of the Society should be addressed to the 
| Secretary of the Northbrook Society, Imperial Institute, London, S.W, 
