Vol. VIII. No. 89. 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
Vol. VIII. No, 89. LONDON. MAY, 1902. 
GENERAL NOTICES. 
“THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL.” 
Fellows resident in the United Kingdom, the Colonies, Inda, and Foreign Countries, are 
supplied with the Journal free by post each month. 
The Subscription to the Journal from other than Fellows, both at home and abroad , is 
as follows, including Postage, and Posted Monthly : — 
Yearly . Ss. od. | Half-yearly . 4s. 6d. | Quarterly . 2s. 6d. 
Subscribers to the Journal can have it forwarded by port on each day of publication 
by payment in advance. Post Office Orders or Cheques shoiid be made payable to the 
Editor, at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, S.W., to wiom also all communications 
relating to the Journal should be addressed. 
The Journal may also be purchased for Sixpence eacl copy at the Ticket Office 
of the Institute and at the railway book-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 punters, WATERLOW & 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. 
*8^" This Journal is distributed (by post) throughout the United Kingdom , India , and the 
Colonies of the British Empire, and to the following Foreign Countries: — Argentine 
Republic . , Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Chili, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, 
Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hawaiian Islands, Holland, Italy, Japan, 
Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Siam, Spain, 
Sweden, Switzerland, Tripoli, Turkey , United States of America, Uruguay, and 
Venezuela. The Journal is also placed in the Reading Rooms of CHAMBERS OP 
Commerce, Clubs, and Hotels, both at home and abroad. 
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SPESSAL MOTKCE. 
EXHIBITION OF GIFTS AND ADDRESSES PRESENTED TO 
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, DURING 
THEIR COLONIAL TOUR IN 1901. 
His Royal Hig-hness 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 inst., from 1 1 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. 
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF COLONIAL PRODUCTS 
AND INDUSTRIES. 
A Special Exhibition of Collections illustrative of the Mineral Wealth 
and of certain Industries of the DOMINION OF CANADA, also of 
commercial products from QUEENSLAND and from RHODESIA, will 
be on view on and after the 15th inst., in the western half of the North 
Gallery, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., on week-days — -Admission Free. 
The whole of the Collections at the Institute will be open until 
7 p.m. during the continuance of the Exhibition of Gifts and Addresses. 

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 io.xo 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 134), 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. 
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SCHOOL OF MODERN ORIENTAL STUDIES. 
An “Ouseley ” Scholarship of ^50 per annum, tenable for tw'o 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 133.J 
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 commercial valua- 
tion, 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 Com- 
mercial 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 notified \ from n a.m. until 5 p.m. (on and after the 15 th inst. 
until 7 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. 
Removal to 49, Eastcheap, E.C. 
On and after May 1st, the City Enquiry Office and Reading Room will 
be removed from 112, Cannon-street to larger premises at 49, Eastcheap, 
where a commodious apartment will also be opened early this month for the 
display, to merchants, manufacturers, etc., of raw and manufactured products 
received, from time to time, from the Colonies and from India, and for 
which it is desired to find openings in 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 India. The City Branch is in constant communica- 
tion, by telephone and messengers, with the Imperial Institute, South 
Kensington. ( For further information see page 132J. 
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, 
“ 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, cfo the Imperial Institute , London , S. IK, 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 130J. 
