THE INDUSTRIAL SECTION. 
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Paper-making materials were tested for cellulose and textile 
and rope-fibres were estimated for their strength. Food 
products received attention^ and analyses were made of 
numerous cereal grains, famine foods and pot herbs. Indi¬ 
genous drugs were tested for their active principles and 
several were chemically examined for the first time. The 
following deserve mention: Adhatoda Vasica, Indian podophyl¬ 
lum, kino, kamala^ waras, Indian hemp, cinchona, Burmese 
storaXj cutch, ipecacuanha and jalap. 
The laboratory was closed on April 1st, 1913. From the 
year 1897 to 1913, over 4,000 museum specimens were chemi¬ 
cally examined and the results were recorded in the Annual 
Report of the Industrial Section. Analj^ses were also con¬ 
ducted on behalf of the Controller of Printing, Stamps and 
Stationery, the Director-General of Commercial Intelligence, 
the Customs Department, and the Admiralty. Consignments 
of economic products have been sent on various occasions to 
Europe for chemical and physiological investigation. Most 
of the specimens were despatched to the Imperial Institute, 
London, while others were sent to Professor A. G. Perkin, 
Leeds, Dr. E. Schaer, Strassburg, Messrs. Schimmel & Co., 
Leipzig, and other experts. 
A portion of the laboratory has been used by the Assis¬ 
tants of the Scientific Officer of the Indian Tea Association, 
whose head-quarters for part of the year are, by permission 
of the Trustees, situated in the Museum. 
In February 1912, this Section of the Museum was 
placed under the Botanical Survey of India, and the Director 
of the Survey, under the Indian Museum Act, 1910, becomes 
ex officio officer in charge of the Industrial Section. The 
designation of the officer in executive control of the section 
was at the same time changed from Reporter on Economic 
Products” to ‘^Economic Botanist to the Botanical Survey 
of India.” 
