Annual Report of the Board of Scientific Advice for India for the year 1905-06

In view of the information given in the zoological sections of the Report the Board were of opinion that the facilities for zoological work in India should be increased and resolved to draw the attention of Government to the fact. [...] A proposal by the Superintendent of the Natural History Section of the Indian Museum for systematic investigation of the small mammals likely to act as transmitters of Plague was considered and the Board resolved that a copy of the letter embodying the proposal should be forwarded to Government with the remark that the Board agreed generally with the suggestions made and recommended them to the c [...] The value of the rubber in the market depends not only on the proportion of caoutchouc but also on the low amount of the impure resinous principles in it ; and they range from 4 to 19 per cent.; the determination of the cause of this variability is worthy of investigation and experiments might be made to show whether it is due V.) the habit of the tree the season of collecting latex or the natur [...] The author draws attention to the alleged identity of the catechin of gambier and that of the wood of Acacia Catechu and refers to the work of Clauser and of Kostanecki and Tambor who supported this view. [...] In the latest report on The Fermentation of I'ea Part I 1906 ' the author reviews the constituents of tea the changes occurring during fermentation the loss of soluble constituents during fermentation the effect of heavy rolling and the effects of increasing the time and raising the temperature during the process.