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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
Vol. VIII. No. S8. LONDON. APRIL, 1902. 
GENERAL NOTICES. 
“THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL.” 
fellows resident in the United Kingdom, the Colonies, India, and Foreign Countries, are 
supplied with the Journal free by post each month. 
The Subscription to the JouRNALfrom other than Fellows, both at home and abroad , is 
as follows, including Postage, and Posted Monthly : — 
Yearly . 8s. od. [ Half-yearly . 4s. 6d. | Quarterly . 2s, 6d. 
Subscribers to the Journal can have it forwarded by post on each day of publication 
by payment in advance. Post Office Orders or Cheques should be made payable to the 
Editor, at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, S.W., to whom also all communications 
relating to the Journal should be addressed. 
The Journal may also be purchased for Sixpence each copy at the Ticket Office 
of the Institute and at the railway hook-stalls of Messrs. WILLING & Co. 
The City Agents for the Journal are Messrs. Willing & Co., 17, Royal Exchange, 
London, E.C. It may also be obtained at the offices of the printers, Water LOW & .Sons 
Limited, Blomfield-house, London-wall, London, E.C. 
Communications respecting Advertisements should be addressed to the Advertisement 
Manager, 6, Arundel-street, Strand, London, W.C. 
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Venezuela. The JOURNAL is also placed in the Reading Rooms of CHAMBERS OF 
Commerce, Clubs, and Hotels, both at home and abroad. 
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SPECIAL NOTICE. 
EXHIBITION OF GIFTS AND ADDRESSES PRESENTED TO 
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, DURING 
THEIR COLONIAL TOUR IN 1901. 
His Royal Highness the PRESIDENT of the IMPERIAL 
INSTITUTE has decided that an EXHIBITION shall be held in 
the North Gallery of the Institute of the GIFTS and ADDRESSES 
presented to their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE AND PRINCESS 
OF WALES on the occasion of their visiting the Colonies in 
1901. The Exhibition will be open to the Public (Admission Is.) 
on the 15th May, from 11 a. m. to 7 p.m., and until further notice. 
The PRINCE OF WALES has also decided that the proceeds 
of the Exhibition shall be added to the “CORONATION GIFT” 
to KING EDWARD’S HOSPITAL FUND. 

FELLOWS’ DEPARTMENT. 
The Reading, Writing, and News Rooms, are open for the use of 
Fellows every week-day from io a.m. till 11.30 p.m., and on Sundays from 
3 P- m - to I0 -3° 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. 
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EMIGRATION INFORMATION OFFICE. 
The Office of the British Women’s Emigration Association (see 
page 106), in the West Corridor, First Floor, is open daily from 10 a.m. 
to 4 p.m., and advice and information respecting emigration and openings in 
the Colonies may be obtained there free of charge. Enquiries, of all kinds 
relating to the Colonies from intending Emigrants are dealt with in the 
Commercial Intelligence Department, and special information respecting 
Canada and the Cape Colony may also be obtained from the Curators for 
these Colonies, on application personally at their offices, or by letter. 
SCHOOL OF MODERN ORIENTAL STUDIES. 
An “Ouseley” Scholarship of ^50 per annum, tenable for two years, 
will be awarded, should sufficient merit.be shown, for proficiency in Persian. 
No person will be admitted to competition for a Scholarship in a language 
which is his own mother tongue, nor for a Scholarship in a language allied to 
his mother tongue. The examination will take place early in July next. 
Full particulars may be obtained of the Secretary to the School, Imperial 
Institute. ( For further information see page 104.J 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
An ornamental Cloth Cover, for binding the numbers of the Journal 
for the year 1901 into one volume, may be obtained at the Ticket Office of 
the Institute, or from Messrs. Waterlow and Sons Limited, Blomfield- 
house, London-wall, E.C., price 2s. 6d. An index and title-page to the 
volume were inserted in the January issue of the Journal. Bound volumes 
of the Journal for the seven years, 1895-1901, may be had at 10s. each. 
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. 
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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. 
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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 notified, , 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. 
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CITY BRANCH OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 
The Reading Room and Enquiry Offices, open to annual subscribers 
of £ 1 , and free to Fellows of the Imperial Institute, will be removed, 
towards the end of the month, from 112, Cannon-street, to larger premises 
at 49, Eastcheap, w'here a commodious apartment will also be opened early 
in May for the display, to merchants, manufacturers, etc., of raw and manu- 
factured products received, from time to time, from the Colonies and from 
India, and for w'hich it is desired to find openings in the British markets. 
Curators and other members of the Imperial institute staff will attend at the 
office at stated times and by special appointment, to deal with enquiries and 
to assist in establishing or facilitating business relations with mercantile 
houses, etc., in the Colonies and in India. The City Branch will be in 
constant communication, by telephone and messengers, with the Imperial 
Institute, South Kensington. (For further information see page 104J. 

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 Fellows 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. 
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“REQUIREMENTS" REGISTRY. 
With the object of affording Fellows of the Imperial Institute, and the 
General Public resident in the United Kingdom, an opportunity of making 
known special “wants” or “needs” in the British Colonies, India, and 
Foreign Countries, space will be regularly devoted to approved notices in a 
column reserved for this purpose. Advertisers may have their replies addressed 
to them direct, cjo the Imperial Institute , London , S.W. , under a distinctive 
number and initials. The cost of postage will be charged for the transmission 
of replies delivered at the Institute. Residents in the Colonies and India, 
and Foreign Countries, can register in like manner. ( For further particulars 
see page 1 o 1 ). 
