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of Ricinus [Tropical Asia, Africa, America], Jatropha glauca [E. India], Curcas purgans [Tropical Asia, Africa, America], Anda Gomesii [Brazil], Siphonia elastica [Brazil], Elaeococca verrucosa [Japan], Aleurites triloba, A. moluccensis, A. gabonensis [Oceania, E. India, Africa, &c.], Aleurites cordata [China], Croton Tiglum and others [India], Croton sebiferum (= Stillingia sebifera) [China], Rottleria tinctoria [E. India]).

39. Fats of the family of the Anacardiaceæ Anacardium occidentale (= Cassuvium pomiferum) E. and W. India], Pistacia Lentiscus [Italy].

40. Fats of the family of the Burseraceæ (Irvingia Barteri [Gabon]).

41. Fats of the family of the Linæ (Linum usitatissimum [Europe]).

42. Fats of the family of the Combretaceæ (Terminalia Catappa [E. and W. India]).

43. Fats of the family of the Rosaceæ (Prunus domestica [Wurtemberg], Amygdalus communis [South Europe], Chrysobalanus Icaco [Tropic America, Senegal]).

44. Fats of the family of the Lecythideæ (Bertholletia excelsa [Brazil], Lecythis ollaria [Brazil, Guyana]).

45. Fats of the family of the Leguminosæ (Arachis hypogæa [Tropical Asia, Africa, and America], Butea frondosa [E. India], Dolichos Soya [China], Pongomia glabra (= Dalbergia arborea) [E. India], Parkia biglandulosa [E. India], Dypterix odorata [Brazil], Bauhinia candida [India], Pentaclethra macrophylla [Gabon], Moringa pterygosperma [Syria, W. India], Moringa aptera [Egypt], and others).

46. Fats (or fatty oils) of plants or families not mentioned above.

47. Materials of vegetable origin from which fats can be obtained.

48. Plants, dried or otherwise preserved, yielding fat-producing materials.

49. Writings upon the manufacturing processes by which fats are prepared.

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8. Ætherial Oils.

Required:

1. A collection of ætherial oils, indifferently, whether used for any special purpose or not.
2. A collection of ætherial oils used for perfumes.
3. A collection of ætherial oils serving for other purposes than the preparing of perfumes.

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9. Vegetable Substances for Paper.

The plants or vegetable matters from which specimens of paper are desired, are:
Straw; Wood; Esparto or Sparte-fibre (Lygeum Spartum); Alfa-fibre (Stipa tenacissima); Reed (Psamma arenaria) grown on Dutch or foreign downs or sandhills; Bamboo; Paper Mulberry-tree (Broussonetia papyrifera); Kapok (Seeddown of Eriodendron anfractuosum); New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax); stems and refuse of Pisangs or Bananas (Musa); Pineapple fibre; Agave fibre; refuse of Cotton and Flax-spinners; Paper-Daphne (Daphne papyrifera); Ricepaper-plant (Aralia papyrifera). Moreover, any other vegetable matters not mentioned here, provided they be of plants capable of being cultivated and reaped on a large scale.

To be sent in:

1. Dried specimens of the plants from which the paper is made.

2. Samples of the raw paper material, and of the paper manufactured therefrom.

3. A statement of the manner of rearing and managing the plants, of the cost of operation, and the prospects of the paper manufacture from the different substances.

4. Models and drawings illustrating the process of manufacture.

Further is desired:
5. A collection of samples of vegetable substances employed from the remotest period to the present time for writing purposes, forming collectively a complete series, from which an historical and ethnographical view of paper industry can be obtained.
6. A collection of writings on paper and paper manufacture.
7. A complete catalogue of such; also of such as occur in periodicals.
8. A statistical review of the paper manufacture, with observations and deductions of its prospects.
9. Coloured drawings of the plants yielding substances for paper making.

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10. Cereals.

Required:
A bundle of ears of all cereals cultivated in Netherlands, accompanied by a sample of ½ kilo. of grain, in a white glass, of each of the bundles exhibited. Further, a statement of the place where, and the description of soil on which, the cereals were reared.

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11. Catechu (Cachou).

Required:

1. Catechu from Acacia Catechu, as occurring in commerce.
2. Catechu from Areca Catechu, as occurring in commerce.
3. Catechu from Uncaria Gambir, as occurring in commerce.
4. Other vegetable productions, containing Tannic Acid, which are or might be made available for technic purposes.

N.B.—It is desirable to exhibit all these kinds of Catechu with the substances from which they are obtained, and the plans yielding those substances.

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12. Vanilla.

Required:

1. Mexican Vanilla.
   (a.) of spontaneous growth (Cimaronа).
   (b.) obtained by culture (Corriente).
2. Vanilla from the Dutch East India possessions.
3. Vanilla from the Dutch West India possessions, with statement on each sample of the species of Vanilla from which it was obtained, and a blossoming sprig of the plants, either dried or preserved in spirits.
4. American Vanilla, derived from other plants than the Vanilla planifolia, with a statement on each sample of the species of Vanilla which produced it, and a sprig, dried or preserved in spirits, of the plants from which it was produced.
5. Vanilla grown in Europe.

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13. Rhubarb.

The derivation of genuine Chinese Rhubarb has been successively referred to various species of the genus Rheum. The latest researches claim the Rheum officinale as the parent.

It is therefore desirable that a thoroughly well-grown root be exhibited, showing the distinctive marks of good Chinese Rhubarb, and to which must be attached a sufficient portion of the parent plant, to determine it satisfactorily.

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14. Sarsaparilla.

Required:
Well prepared (either dried or otherwise prepared) specimens of plans yielding Sarsaparilla for