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RESULTS OF CHEMICAL EXAMINATION. 
Colour 
Appearance . . 
Specific gravity at 15.5° C 
Geranioi per cent . . 
Liglit yellow 
Clear 
0.8890 
Citronellal .. ■■ 
Solubility in 80 per cent alcoliol . 1 in 1 or more volumes. 
in a future number of the Bulletin I hope to publish 
the results, of analysis of other samples of Citronella oil, 
and to give a general description of the origin and pro- 
perties of the two distinct varieties of the oil on the market. 
In conclusion I have to thank Mr. J. Nevitt- Stevens of 
Ohenderiang Estate, Perak, for his kindness in permitting 
me to publish the above analysis of this oil which was 
derived from Ohenderiang Estate. 
B. J. Eaton, 
Government Chemist, F. M. S. 
A NEW RUBBER JOURNAL. 
We have received a copy of the first number of the 
Bulletin de 1 ’Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc, 
a new journal on rubber from the cultivator’s point of view. 
The journal is published in Antwerp where it is proposed to 
establish a central office for the receipt and dissemination 
of information on matters useful to members, to form a 
library of works on the subject and to publish the Bulletin. 
The Association is already founded and the Committee- in- 
cludes many well-known men whose names are familiar to 
all Tropical Agriculturists. 
Active members, or technical members pay a subscrip- 
tion of £4 per annum, ordinary Members 8 shillings. 
Persons who endow the Association with £20 will be known 
as Associates. The bulletin appears monthly at a cost ot 
12.50 francs to persons outside Belgium and Holland. Ine 
articles are at present chiefly extracts from other journals 
and commence by an article on the origin of the rubber 
plantations which contains the same old errors as to the 
Federated Malay States plantations being started by cut- 
tings from the Peradeniya gardens in 1877 1 and by seeds 
from the same place in 1886. These errors have been so 
often pointed out that there is no necessity to repeat the 
disproof. The distribution of seeds from the plantations 
of Cevlon to Australia, Borneo, West Indies, Africa is 
mentioned, but no mention is made of those exported trom 
