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Page 394 - The Guide to South Africa for the use of Tourists, Sportsmen, Invalids, and Settlers. With Coloured Maps, Plans, and Diagrams.
Page vi - Departments for investigation, such natural products of the countries in which they are appointed to reside as are likely to be of use to British manufacturers and merchants. Materials are first investigated in the laboratories of the Department, and are afterwards submitted to technical trials by experts attached to the Department, and finally are commercially valued.
Page 384 - Africa have long been known to cultivate tobacco successfully, but it is only within recent years that any attempt has been made by the European settlers to grow the crop.
Page 279 - The samples have been examined in the Scientific and Technical Department of the Imperial Institute and are described below.
Page v - Memorial of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria, by whom it was opened in May, 1893. The principal object of the Institute is to promote the utilisation of the commercial and industrial resources of the Empire by arranging comprehensive exhibitions of natural products, especially of India and the Colonies, and providing for their investigation and for the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical, and commercial information relating to them.
Page 365 - To consider questions relating to agricultural co-operation, insurance, and credit in all their forms, to collect and publish information which may be useful in the various countries for the organisation of undertakings relating to agricultural co-operation, insurance, and credit. (/) To present, if expedient, to...
Page 89 - ... upon his own observations and the accounts furnished him by officials, missionaries and traders. Mr. Dorman spent six months in the country, and during that time he ascended the Congo river as far as Stanleyville, and also journeyed up the Ubangi river in the French Congo to Djabir. RECENT JOURNAL. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. A semi-quarterly journal devoted to geology as applied to mining and allied industries. Nos. I. and II. (The Economic Geology Publishing Company, South Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA)...
Page vii - The library and reading-rooms of the Imperial Institute contain a large collection of Colonial and Indian works of reference, and are regularly supplied with the more important official publications, and with many of the principal newspapers and periodicals of the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India.
Page 323 - Faraday was the first to examine the constituents of the latex of Hevea brasiliensis. It is only in recent years that our knowledge of the constitution of organic compounds, and especially of the terpene group, has rendered it possible to make any great advance. It is interesting to record that Greville Williams, in 1860, made most important contributions to this subject. He identified a new hydrocarbon, isoprene, as a decomposition product of caoutchouc, and recognised its polymeric relation to...
Page v - Branch, which is now located in the City (73, Basinghall Street, EG), and with the Emigrants' Information Office in Westminster. Indian and Colonial Economic Collections. — The Collections of economic products, illustrative of the commercial resources of India and the Colonies, are arranged on a geographical system in the galleries of the Institute. Thirty-eight Colonies and Dependencies are represented. The Collections are open free to the public daily, except on Sundays, from 10 am to 5 pm in...