134 CONSTITUENTS OP THE FRUIT OF ANACARDIUM. 
tubes. The scheme has been repeatedly attempted by un- 
scientific speculators in various forms, but has been sooner 
or later abandoned, after occasioning no little injury to the 
establishment. 
Mr. Palmer's other project, of using cannel coal, is quite 
impracticable in London ; first, from the high price of cannel 
coal here, and next, from the worthlessness of its coke. 
The thing has been tried, but was, for these reasons, soon 
given up. His proposed plan for abstracting sulphur is of 
a very problematic nature, and may be regarded as at least 
superfluous, for all the leading gas companies of the 
metropolis furnish gas well desulphuretted. In fact, Mr. 
Palmer's patent is merely a collection of the shreds and 
patches of worn-out projects— a motley group of make- 
shifts, under the cover of our anti-scientific legislation, 
which in no other but our own jobbing, law-laden country 
would be taken under patent protection. — Pharm. Journ, 
ART. XXXVL— ON THE PECULIAR CONSTITUENTS OF THE 
FRUIT OF ANACARDIUM. 
By Dr. SxiEDELER. 
The fruit known by the name of Cashew nuts and noix 
d'acajou, which appear to have formerly been ofBcinal, but 
are now no longer met with in commerce, are derived from 
a tree which occurs in South America and the West Indies, 
the Anacardium Occident ale, L., Cassuvium Occident ale, 
Lam., which belongs to the family of the Cassuvias and to 
the Enneandria monogynia of the Linnaean system. They 
are kidney-shaped, and of a brownish-yellow, somewhat 
