The Bulletin of the Imperial Institute.London.has now been enlarged to give a more complete reflection of the various activities of the institute.The Bulletin contains interesting results of Laboratory investigations as well as useful articles and notes on plant and animal products,and on ores and minerals .The last two issues contain.among many others.notes on drying of hides and skins:improvement in the quality of ghee:cultivation of Tung oil tree:Cacao fermentation:weed-killers:cultivation of lemon-grass and distillation of its oil:colouration of glass by mineral compounds :mineral resources of Johore.British Somaliland and Abyssinia:Empire nickel developments:the Dead Sea potash industry:and magnesium compounds from sea water.the Institute is to be congradulated on the reduction of the prie of the Bulletinwhich it has been able to make in spite of the extended scope of its contents.
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