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has been extracted from the Descriptive Catalogue of the 
Colonial Museum, Haarlem, 1888, forms a most impor- 
tant contribution to our knowledge of the timber trees 
of the colony : — 
Yari-Yari, Ditguetia guianensis (D.C.) 
Acouyari, Cedrela odorata (L.) 
Kaboeballi (Cabacalli ?) Goupia tomentosa and G. glabra (Aubl.) 
Dakamaballi or Black Greenheart, Vouacapoua americana (Aubl.) 
Wamara, Bannia, or Brown Ebony, Swartzia tomentosa (D.C.) 
Hoobooballi, Mimosa guianensis (Aubl.) 
Kakaralli, Lecythis ollaria (L.) 
Wadaduri, Lecythis grandiflora (Aubl.) 
Murri Marri, Couratari guianensis (Aubl.) 
. Tawranero, Bumelia nigra (Sw.) 
Yuwalidani, Minquartia guianensis (Aubl.) 
Couramari, Kakali, Bignonia incequalis (D.C.) 
Marisiballi (Marciballi), Bignonia leucoxylon (L.) 
Washiba or Bow Wood (Man-letterhout) Piratinera guianensis (Aubl.) 
Bouracoura or Letter Wood (Oeman-letterhout) P. Aubletii (Poep.) 
Dally, Waroesi, Myristica fatua (Sw.) 
Determa, Nectandra wana. 
Siruaballi, Yellow Silverballi, Nectandra pisi (Miq.) and N. cuspidata 
(N. v. E.) 
♦ 
Snake-poison. — A most important and interesting 
paper has recently been communicated to the Imperial 
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersbuig, by Dr. Feok- 
TISTOW, on the effect of snake-poison on the animal 
organism ; and a short abstract ot this paper, from which 
the following is chiefly taken, has been published in the 
Lancet for August. The experiments numbered about 
300, and were conducted with the poison of Vipera 
ammodytes, Vipera berus, and Crotalus durissimus, 
obtained from about 80 of these animals which were 
kept in a building suitable for them. No physiological 
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